I have No News Except what you got
through the press if I had I have
No time to write it. You will see H. S. Eldridge is buried & his Will published but not vary satisfactory
to his first children. We shall
hold Conference in S. L. City coming on
the 5 OctI may attendbut cant say
Now My young children all go to
school Alice is begining to Learn
Well Now she & her Mother are both Well
Now Br Atkins you can see that
I am Nervous & in a Hurry to day
I have so many irons in the fire that
some of them are burning so Excuse
Haste & a short Letter But I will say that Dagget is as good a probate Judge as you
can get out side and they object in the
Senate to Appointing a Mormon anywhare
Old Edmonds is the Chairman of the
Committee in the senate who conspires and
He will object to a Mormon give my
Love to all the family
I have No News Except what you got
through the press if I had I have
No time to write it. You will see
H. S. Eldridge is buried & his Will
published but not vary satisfactory
to his first children. We shall
hold Conference in S. L. City coming on
the 5 OctI may attendbut cant say
Now My young children all go to
school Alice is begining to Learn
Well Now she & her Mother are both Well
Now Br Atkins you can see that
I am Nervous & in a Hurry to day
I have so many irons in the fire that
some of them are burning so Excuse
Haste & a short Letter But I will say that
Dagget is as good a probate Judge as you
can get out side and they object in the
Senate to Appointing a Mormon anywhare
Old Edmonds is the Chairman of the
Committee in the senate who conspires and
He will object to a Mormon give my
Love to all the family
"Letter to William and Rachel Thompson Atkins, 12 September 1888," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/R5xV