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 a child to see or know
your cares, it at times causes me sorrow, but then again
that sorrow is checked with a certain knowledge that it is my priviledge
to meet with you in the first ressurection & enjoy a mansion in
the Celestial Kingdom of God with my father & Mother & Brother
& as far as I have any influence with the kingdom of God, it shall
be used to accomplished this purpose, the more I understand
as touching Eternal things the ^more^ interested I feel in the welfare
of my kindred, I have quite a desire of late to feel atfeafter.
Br Azm[on][page torn] & Thompson I trust before they die to see the[m][page torn]
in the c[ove][page torn]ant. I know the more a man understa[nds][page torn]
the gospel, the Keys & Kingdom & Eternal things the more his he[page torn]
will be sealed to his Parents & his Children, this was the spirit that
characterized all the prophets & patriarchs from Abel to
Zachariah; I would like to spend more of my life in your
company, but I am not ownly sacrificing the socity of my
parents but my wife & Children for the great work of this
dispensation. I have not herd from Br Azmon I that
since he wrote you while I was East I intend to write him
a letter as soon as I get time. If Dwight & Eunice is
with you my respects to them of course. I feel anxious
to learn about them, if you can have an opportunity of giving
notice to Sister Betsy I should be pleased to see her at the Farmington
Conferece, I dont know how her Mother is, or how she will be
situated, give my Respects to Sister Hooker & Jennett & all the
Saints or friends who inquire after me, I dont know
but your will be troubled to read my writing, for I have
written in great heaste & surrounded by many many.
As Ever I am yours with respect

Wilford Woodruff

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 a child to see or know your cares, it at times causes me sorrow, but then again that sorrow is checked with a certain knowledge that it is my priviledge to meet with you in the first ressurection & enjoy a mansion in the Celestial Kingdom of God with my father & Mother & Brother & as far as I have any influence with the kingdom of God, it shall be used to accomplished this purpose, the more I understand as touching Eternal things the more interested I feel in the welfare of my kindred, I have quite a desire of late to feelafter. Br Azmonpage torn & Thompson I trust before they die to see thempage torn in the covepage tornant. I know the more a man understandspage torn the gospel, the Keys & Kingdom & Eternal things the more his hepage torn will be sealed to his Parents & his Children, this was the spirit that characterized all the prophets & patriarchs from Abel to Zachariah; I would like to spend more of my life in your company, but I am not ownly sacrificing the socity of my parents but my wife & Children for the great work of this dispensation. I have not herd from Br Azmon I that since he wrote you while I was East I intend to write him a letter as soon as I get time. If Dwight & Eunice is with you my respects to them of course. I feel anxious to learn about them, if you can have an opportunity of giving notice to Sister Betsy I should be pleased to see her at the Farmington Conferece, I dont know how her Mother is, or how she will be situated, give my Respects to Sister Hooker & Jennett & all the Saints or friends who inquire after me, I dont know but your will be troubled to read my writing, for I have written in great heaste & surrounded by many. As Ever I am yours with respect

Wilford Woodruff