Great Salt Lake City U. T. March 323rd 1856 Elder Taylor Dear Sir I have received a mission to the States this spring the object of which is to get a font of type east in the letter of the Deseret Alphabet & then to get some school books printed in the same. President Young wishes me to get this work accomplished so that some of the Books can be brought to this city next fall. I hardly think it can be accomplished in time to get Books through this ...

And any information you can give me upon this subject that will facilitate the work will be Kindly Received, we have got out two primmers one a pictorial primmer & a first Reader & wish to get manuscrip Ready for 2-3 & 4th Readers if we can but as is generally the cast case their is so many matters on hand that we may not have time to accomplish all that we wish in this thing I think you have been ^some^ acquainted with the Deseret Alphabet there has been some changes from the origional ...

The past year has been a severe time with the people in this Territory the crops being nearly all cut all last sumer by the grasshoppers and the winter has been so cold that I would judge that 3/4 of all the stock in the whole Territory are Dead, & nearly all the Sheep, almost every thing in the Northern part of the Territory is dead, but vary few of the people in the Territory have bread to eat, & their does not appear to be animals Enogh left in the Territory to plough the ground ...

W. Woodruff May 1856.