Cambridgeport Mass March 28th 1850 Brother Amasa Lyman Dear Sir I Received your kind Letter of Jan 12th by the Hand of Brother Badlam & was truly glad to hear from you. I must tell you in the Beginning that I cannot comply with your request by writing you a long letter for I cannot steal time enough to do it for I have been overwhelmed in business since Badlams Return But I will write a Litterle & begin by saying that John Taylor

with a company of about 300 including a company from philadelphia. We go to St Louis up to the Bluffs & on to the vally their is a great push to get out of the States this season many will go to the vally O Pratt has called a general Conference before He left & the following is the Representation of the Conference 470 Branches 4 H P. 1482 Elders 1496 Priest 958 Teachers 548 Deacons 27,912 Members Baptized in ...

Mules 60 to 125, poneys $40 &c. it is thought there will be as great a rush for the Vally as their way last year & many more of the Saints. I am making all calculations to go the the vally this sumer if the Lord ^Lord^ will We are all well. I should like to step into the gold diggings & see what you are doing a little while There is no prospect of our getting a State Government not at present. We have had a vary warm go winter but our winter has begun in ...

Mr Amasa Lyman San Francisco Calafornia 40 CAMBRIDGE PORT Mass. MAR 29 [upside-down text] W Woodruff Cambridgeport March 28, 1850 [end of upside-down text]