Aug 1892 ^Sept 6, 1892^
Elder Junius F Wells Dear Brother
Please accept my gratitude
and thanks for the Eleven Photograph Likenesses of the
House of my birth and the birth place of my Father and
Grand Father Woodruff and of my Mother and Grand
Father Thompson And of the saw Mill and flouring Mill
of my Grand Father Eldad Woodruff and of my Father
Aphek Woodruff who occupied the building from
time he was 18 years of Age and which I occupied
more or less from childhood up Also the Home
my father & myself occupied in Farmington for
15 years while tending Farmington Mills. also
the Likeness of several the Neighbors dwelling in Avon. The mystrey to me is how all these buildings
have been kept in such a good state of preservation
considering that nearly all of them are more than
one hundred & fifty years of age. All of them looked
as natural as life to me I picked out the place in
the saw Mill whare Sam Norton permitted me to wride
on the carriage and caught my right Leg betwen
the fender post and head Block and broake it I was
five years of age I picked out the place in the
dwelling house whare I fell down stairs and
broke one of my arms this was caused by trying
to get away from the switch which our Father
was using to punish us for playing in the chamber
on Sunday which was strongly against the
rules of the blue Laws of Connecticut
Sept 6, 1892
Elder Junius F Wells Dear Brother
Please accept my gratitude
and thanks for the Eleven Photograph Likenesses of the
House of my birth and the birth place of my Father and
Grand Father Woodruff and of my Mother and Grand
Father Thompson And of the saw Mill and flouring Mill
of my Grand Father Eldad Woodruff and of my Father
Aphek Woodruff who occupied the building from
time he was 18 years of Age and which I occupied
more or less from childhood up Also the Home
my father & myself occupied in Farmington for
15 years while tending Farmington Mills. also
the Likeness of several the Neighbors dwelling in
Avon. The mystrey to me is how all these buildings
have been kept in such a good state of preservation
considering that nearly all of them are more than
one hundred & fifty years of age. All of them looked
as natural as life to me I picked out the place in
the saw Mill whare Sam Norton permitted me to wride
on the carriage and caught my right Leg betwen
the fender post and head Block and broake it I was
five years of age I picked out the place in the
dwelling house whare I fell down stairs and
broke one of my arms this was caused by trying
to get away from the switch which our Father
was using to punish us for playing in the chamber
on Sunday which was strongly against the
rules of the blue Laws of Connecticut
"Journal (January 1886 – December 1892)," September 6, 1892, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 25, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/OgOB