Comstock, Kalamazoo, Co. Michigan, June 1st 1844 Father & Mother Woodruff, Dear parents. I feel Disposed to address a few lines to you to infoerm you that I have commenced my Summer work ie to attend a long list of Conferences which lie through the western middle & New England States. You probably may have seen the list of coferences which we publish in the Times & Seasons, but lest you might have missed of it I will make metion of it here. The following places the quoroum of the Twelve were Expecting to ...

Could not get seasoned lumber, but they can go into the house we mooved out of untill he can lay a floor in a room in the new House & then they will comfortable. I left my family well & in good spirits, my life & lot seems to be mostly in the vineyard I left Nauvoo about the first of May in company with Elder G. A. Smith one of the Twelve, to attend the Conferences. I expect to meet with Elders B Young & H. C ...

I should be pleased to meet all our friends or relations at your house that have faith in the work, but if I see no more it will be a consolation to meet my father & Mother, the longer I live, the more advanced you are in life the more I essteem it a favor to look upon your faces, & when I contemplate the thought that you are like Old father Jacob not ownly bereaved of one Son but of evry Son & Daughter & left alone to pass away your feeling declineing hours in silence with not ...

PAID 25 Mr Aphek Woodruff Farmington Hartford Co Connecticut P. Valley M June 14th [Upside Down Text] Wilford Woodruff To Aphek Woodruff Jue 1st 1844 [End Upside Down Text]