a mission. I have studied
the German language some, yet
not sufficiently to enable me to
speak it understand^ing^ly with
out more study, yet I have en
nough knowledge of it to very
quickly acquire the language
if thrown entirely among Ger-
man speaking people
I was also born at 42 Is-
lington, and earnestly desire to
visit England. There are
numerous other reasons that I
could give for requesting a
change from Somoa to Europe,
all probably more or less
selfish, yet I sincerely feel
that I could with God's bless-
ing, fill an honorable mission
in Germany or England.
There are, too, I do not question,
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a mission. I have studied
the German language some, yet
not sufficiently to enable me to
speak it understandingly with
out more study, yet I have e
nough knowledge of it to very quickly
acquire the language
if thrown entirely among German speaking people
I was also born at 42 Islington, and earnestly desire to
visit England. There are
numerous other reasons that I
could give for requesting a
change from Somoa to Europe,
all probably more or less
selfish, yet I sincerely feel
that I could with God's blessing, fill an honorable mission
in Germany or England.
"Letter from Joseph Angell Young, b. 1866, 6 May 1890," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 26, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/XLWl