Dear friends
Your Letter of Sept 2 is before
me and in the Midst of a whirlpool of
business I will try to write a few lines
I done not put off answering any corres-
-spondence now day if I do it well
never be Done I have 3 Heavy mails
a Day, and not much Less then a doz Meetings a day of one kind & another and
some vary difficult matters to attend to
with Government offices &c in fact have
never been in Deeper water in my life
in Chuch Matters than to day. Well I call
myself well as usual and so are the brethren
with me We hope to see day light some
day before Long I am always Glad to [hear]
from you and of your Prosperity
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Received
Sep 17
Answered Sep 23
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Dear friends
Your Letter of Sept 2 is before
me and in the Midst of a whirlpool of
business I will try to write a few lines
I done not put off answering any corres-spondence now day if I do it well
never be Done I have 3 Heavy mails
a Day, and not much Less then a doz
Meetings a day of one kind & another and
some vary difficult matters to attend to
with Government offices &c in fact have
never been in Deeper water in my life
in Chuch Matters than to day. Well I call
myself well as usual and so are the brethren
with me We hope to see day light some
day before Long I am always Glad to hear
from you and of your Prosperity
"Letter to William and Rachel Thompson Atkins, 12 September 1888," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 17, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/N5q2