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 Erastus SnowLorenzo Snow & F D Richards of the Twelve with about 20
Elders arived safe to the Starts States on their missions F. D. Richards
with a dozen Elders or so set sail for L. pool from N. Orleans Taylor
is gone to Tennessee. L Snow is in New York, Erastus Snow & Orson Pratt & J. B. Wallace spent Last Sabbath with me we
had a good time. O Pratt goes to Council Bluffs & then Returns
back to England E Snow goes to Liverpool in few days on
his way to Sweeden, Haywood & Woolly have been with me
brought some $8000 dollars worth of goods shiped it via N Orleans
I shiped 20 tons of goods & Baggage on same ship for myself
& company that goes with me. A Badlam left with his
family a few days since for St Louis to buy cattle for my
company He paid all his debts & had enough left to
take his family to the vally I for Ione I am glad
of it. I start on the 9th April via New York & Philadelphia
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 Little & begin by saying that John TaylorErastus SnowLorenzo Snow & F D Richards of the Twelve with about 20
Elders arived safe to the States on their missions F. D. Richards
with a dozen Elders or so set sail for L. pool from N. Orleans Taylor
is gone to Tennessee. L Snow is in New York, Erastus Snow &
Orson Pratt & J. B. Wallace spent Last Sabbath with me we
had a good time. O Pratt goes to Council Bluffs & then Returns
back to England E Snow goes to Liverpool in few days on
his way to Sweeden, Haywood & Woolly have been with me
brought some $8000 dollars worth of goods shiped it via N Orleans
I shiped 20 tons of goods & Baggage on same ship for myself
& company that goes with me. A Badlam left with his
family a few days since for St Louis to buy cattle for my
company He paid all his debts & had enough left to
take his family to the vally I forone I am glad
of it. I start on the 9th April via New York & Philadelphia