[sideways text] answered [end of sideways text] PRESIDENT'S OFFICE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST. OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, P. O. BOX B. Salt Lake U. T. Jan 20 1888 Wm Atkin Dear Brother I have received your Letter of the 8 And read with interest as I do all your Letters I think it is quite an uncommon thing for you to have Ice 10 inches thick or 6 inches the thought struck me about the Health of Ice for drinking taken from a pond that ...

Law Suit and all Church affairs taken together Keepe me vary busy (Private I was vary sorry to learn of D H Cannons affairs I was in hopes He had age & Experience Enough to keep out of such scrapes as that) As to Sulivan I dont know much about, his operation may be in his Line I dont think He is much of a Saint Our Law- suit has not Done much of Late I Expect sumthing will soon be done in it We are having vary cold Weather Thermomter 16 degrees Below Zero in ...