any assistance in your afflictions & I pray the Lord to Bless Br & Sister Smoot
& Jemima & all the Saints in Lovely Street for all their kindness towards you
in your afflictions & Sickness that has or may come upon you I will remem
ber you & Sarah with them before God in my prayers. Phebe I have a great deel I want to say to you in this lietter. As far as my health is concerned it has
been vary unsettled I had but one chill after I left home which was [next]
day for about 4 weeks I took however some of Sapingtons pills which
stoped my chills & fever & I had no more untill I arived at Buffalo with the
exception of a light chill in Germontown Wane County Ia which was brought
upon me by preaching & sitting down by a window & the wind blew upon me &
I was chilled Br Taylor followed me though he was very feeble in the first stag[e]
of the Billious fever I have not roon to tell you much about it for I suppose
he hath written to Sister Taylor before this time & informed her of it. I was oblieged
to leave him in Germontown but It was with a family of the kindest people. but
as I was feble Brother Taylor wished me to continued my journess & he would tary
untill he got well he was vary Sick 2 weaks & the fever left him low & it took two
weeks more to recover his health I have not seen him since but am expeting him
in this City every day. My chills returned as I took the canal Boat in Albay in
consequence of being in a storm on lake Erie & taking cold I had a chill Evey day
for 8 days but they were light, & soon as I arived at fathers my chills stoped for
several days & then returned for several days. On the 27th day of Sept my Grandmot[her]
Thompson Died aged 84 years. Also on the 4th day of Oct Uncle Adna Hart died aged
43 years both of Avon I was called upon to preach the funeral Sermon of
Adna Hart & the town was set at the time my chills was upon me but I
attended the funeral preached to the people & had no chills or fever during the
day nor but vary little Since. I left Fathers the 7th of Oct & arived at New york
next morning at the Store of Brother Ilus F Carter I have called upon him
freequently Since I have been in the City I reiceved a letter from Sister Foss
from the Hand of Ilus in answer to the one that I wrote her from Terre Haute on
the 25 Aug. I have visited the Church at Sing sing & Brooklin since I arived in this city
& I find among them as well as though this City many Mothers & Sisters that feel & act
as though they could not do enough for me they spare no pains to make me comforta-
ble & happy & to supply all my wants your petitions are fully answered in this respect I
mean your written petition that I foud in my trunk which I have after read
with great satisfaction. I am glad indeed that you wrote me when you did for
I am now expecting to take water for Liverpool the forepart of the comeing week
probably on Monday in company with Elders Mullener & Wright & Brother
Taylor if he arives before we leave. & as to the rest of the Twelve I know no
more about one of them thatn if they were in another world I do not know
whether they are in Montrose, Commerce, or whether they are on their Journey
any assistance in your afflictions & I pray the Lord to Bless Br & Sister Smoot
& Jemima & all the Saints in Lovely Street for all their kindness towards you
in your afflictions & Sickness that has or may come upon you I will remem
ber you & Sarah with them before God in my prayers. Phebe I have a great
deel I want to say to you in this letter. As far as my health is concerned it has
been vary unsettled I had but one chill after I left home which was [illegible]
day for about 4 weeks I took however some of Sapingtons pills which
stoped my chills & fever & I had no more untill I arived at Buffalo with the
exception of a light chill in Germontown Wane County Ia which was brought
upon me by preaching & sitting down by a window & the wind blew upon me &
I was chilled Br Taylor followed me though he was very feeble in the first stage
of the Billious fever I have not roon to tell you much about it for I suppose
he hath written to Sister Taylor before this time & informed her of it. I was oblieged
to leave him in Germontown but It was with a family of the kindest people. but
as I was feble Brother Taylor wished me to continued my journess & he would tary
untill he got well he was vary Sick 2 weaks & the fever left him low & it took two
weeks more to recover his health I have not seen him since but am expeting him
in this City every day. My chills returned as I took the canal Boat in Albay in
consequence of being in a storm on lake Erie & taking cold I had a chill Evey day
for 8 days but they were light, & soon as I arived at fathers my chills stoped for
several days & then returned for several days. On the 27th day of Sept my Grandmother
Thompson Died aged 84 years. Also on the 4th day of Oct Uncle Adna Hart died aged
43 years both of Avon I was called upon to preach the funeral Sermon of
Adna Hart & the town was set at the time my chills was upon me but I
attended the funeral preached to the people & had no chills or fever during the
day nor but vary little Since. I left Fathers the 7th of Oct & arived at New york
next morning at the Store of Brother Ilus F Carter I have called upon him
freequently Since I have been in the City I reiceved a letter from Sister Foss
from the Hand of Ilus in answer to the one that I wrote her from Terre Haute on
the 25 Aug. I have visited the Church at Sing sing & Brooklin since I arived in this city
& I find among them as well as though this City many Mothers & Sisters that feel & act
as though they could not do enough for me they spare no pains to make me comfortable & happy & to supply all my wants your petitions are fully answered in this respect I
mean your written petition that I foud in my trunk which I have after read
with great satisfaction. I am glad indeed that you wrote me when you did for
I am now expecting to take water for Liverpool the forepart of the comeing week
probably on Monday in company with Elders Mullener & Wright & Brother
Taylor if he arives before we leave. & as to the rest of the Twelve I know no
more about one of them than if they were in another world I do not know
whether they are in Montrose, Commerce, or whether they are on their Journey
"Letter to Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 23 October 1839," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 18, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/qxz3