As P. Rock^well^ has just called at the door and says
he will take a line to you I stop all business and would just say
to you that I with Phebe & Susan am quite alone Sister Edwards
having gone to the point to Alreads on a visit brother Smoot started
yesterday for St. Joes took the wagon I could not get them to paint
the box but the wheels were painted twice. The present prospects are that
your folks all intend going west this season which with a driver
that they must have will ^take^ 1 ton of bread stuf to begin with which if I
get it would more than loade one wagon of itself I have tried to get
your Mother a passage but have not yet quite succeded she seames quite
inclined not to go east. O Willford I have a plenty to see to & think of, the
oxen here are about as when you left—we hear that there ^is^ very little damage
done at the Bates herd they will be in here next week. Brother Taylor & Pratt are here. Sister Pratt is better but her children have been quite sick but
are better. We are all well. I should like to know your mind about
my fitting out so many for the journey it will just about strip me
destitute of all provisions but I will try to do right about it. Willy Phebe
& Susan says send Pa. kiss for me. Uncle John sends his respects to you send me a
line if you can.
As P. Rockwell has just called at the door and says
he will take a line to you I stop all business and would just say
to you that I with Phebe & Susan am quite alone Sister Edwards
having gone to the point to Alreads on a visit brother Smoot started
yesterday for St. Joes took the wagon I could not get them to paint
the box but the wheels were painted twice. The present prospects are that
your folks all intend going west this season which with a driver
that they must have will take 1 ton of bread stuf to begin with which if I
get it would more than loade one wagon of itself I have tried to get
your Mother a passage but have not yet quite succeded she seames quite
inclined not to go east. O Willford I have a plenty to see to & think of, the
oxen here are about as when you left. we hear that there is very little damage
done at the Bates herd they will be in here next week. Brother Taylor &
Pratt are here. Sister Pratt is better but her children have been quite sick but
are better We are all well. I should like to know your mind about
my fitting out so many for the journey it will just about strip me
destitute of all provisions but I will try to do right about it. Willy Phebe
& Susan says send Pa. kiss for me. Uncle John sends his respects to you send me a
line if you can.
"Letter from Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff, 19 April 1847," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Q0rq