On the flat cleared off the brush pitched
15 tents brought out the water in different
Channels and prepared to Entertain Excursion-
ist & citizens at $1.50 a day or $8 a week He
has had so many He could not Lodge them
or feed them ownly by setting 2 or 3 tables ^tables^ I
was there 3 days it is splendid fishing in the
Creek we caught about 100 while there
I had Emma & Alice with me I go
again Saturday Night to spend about a week
with EmmaClaraBlancheAliceOvando
& Owen to rest I get away from care
and work Brother G. Q. C. is well & wants
to be Remembered Br J. F. S. is quite sick
a bed with Lambago & siattiaca I go around
about the county quite freely without any trouble
3
On the flat cleared off the brush pitched
15 tents brought out the water in different
Channels and prepared to Entertain Excursionist & citizens at $1.50 a day or $8 a week He
has had so many He could not Lodge them
or feed them ownly by setting 2 or 3 tables I
was there 3 days it is splendid fishing in the
Creek we caught about 100 while there
I had Emma & Alice with me I go
again Saturday Night to spend about a week
with EmmaClaraBlancheAliceOvando
& Owen to rest I get away from care
and work Brother G. Q. C. is well & wants
to be Remembered Br J. F. S. is quite sick
a bed with Lambago & siattaca I go around
about the county quite freely without any trouble
"Letter to William and Rachel Thompson Atkin, 26 July 1888," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 25, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/nYG4