Coveville Cache Co Utah Oct 4th 1897 Wilfred Woodruff Dear Brother you ask mee to take a mission to the southern states witch I would bee glad to do if my circumstance would permit but I have taken a place and I ^have^ not been able to prove up an it yet and I am in debt for my fencing. So I hope you will excuse me So no more at present. I Remanein yours brother in the Gospel Peter Kingsford his Father told me he could go. your ...

Peter Kingsford Oct. 4 [18]97 Judging him and his other qualifications by his letter or rather by his writing, he ought to be excused from going on a mission at all at least for the present or until he can learn to write a little better. I would excuse him until he can fix his affairs. J. F. S. ...