We reseived your
welcome letter and was glad
to here from yo it seems
hard to loose Brigy in the
way we did but he was a
good boy I wish I could
change places with him
my life ^is^ very hard here
every one seems bent
on anoying me Ms Irwin
has been write to her
Sister here and sayes
She fears for her life
in Salt Lake City I wish
it was so that I could
come home but the
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thing of my self I took one
step that of geting Maried
before I was old enough to
know any thing and have
always regreted it I am
A perfect slave to R Robert
and the famoly it seem-
s as though the end would
never come the children
are not what they would
have been if they had a
difrent Father I am almos^t^
tired of trying
We reseived your
welcome letter and was glad
to here from yo it seems
hard to loose Brigy in the
way we did but he was a
good boy I wish I could
change places with him
my life is very hard here
every one seems bent
on anoying me Ms Irwin
has been write to her
Sister here and sayes
She fears for her life
in Salt Lake City I wish
it was so that I could
come home but the
left side of page
thing of my self I took one
step that of geting Maried
before I was old enough to
know any thing and have
always regreted it I am
A perfect slave to R Robert
and the famoly it seems as though the end would
never come the children
are not what they would
have been if they had a
difrent Father I am almost
tired of trying
"Letter from Susan Cornelia Woodruff Scholes, 13 August 1877," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 12, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/mQK9