the most because she would want to have them in
the family I canot write much now for I
want to say sumthing to the other children
Your Affectinate Father W. Woodruff
Dear Clarrie I want you to be a good girl and
help your mother, and mind her, you are a getting
old Enough to lay aside all childish and nauty
ways and begin to be a good young Lady I wish
to hear a good report of you I want to have
you learn what you can this winter I
hear a very bad report of many young people in salt
Lake City I hope my boys and girls will be good
I should feel very bad to have them do wrong to swair
steal and becone wicked I want to have you learn to pray,
Pray the Lord to Bless poor Blanch and mak her well
I love my children when they are good and it makes
me feel bad when they are Naughty I send you some
raisons By Brother Wilckin. Your Affectionate Father W Woodruff
Dear Owen, I hope you are a good Boy, and say your prayers
and are kind to your Ma, Nelly, Asahel & Clarrie and help
take good care of poor Blanch I want to have you be
carefol & not say any words that are Nauty and then the Lord
will love you I sent you a package of raisions and a Brass
top I think Asahel can show you how to ^s^pin it I wat
to say to Asahel that I want to have him excuse my
not writig to him now I will remember him next
time He has done well been a good Boy and He shall
be Blessed and you all have my Blessings
your Affectionate Father
W Woodruff
the most because she would want to have them in
the family I canot write much now for I
want to say sumthing to the other children
Your Affectinate Father W. Woodruff
Dear Clarrie I want you to be a good girl and
help your mother, and mind her, you are a getting
old Enough to lay aside all childish and nauty
ways and begin to be a good young Lady I wish
to hear a good report of you I want to have
you learn what you can this winter I
hear a very bad report of many young people in salt
Lake City I hope my boys and girls will be good
I should feel very bad to have them do wrong to swair
steal and becone wicked I want to have you learn to pray,
Pray the Lord to Bless poor Blanch and mak her well
I love my children when they are good and it makes
me feel bad when they are Naughty I send you some
raisons By Brother Wilckin. Your Affectionate Father W Woodruff
Dear Owen, I hope you are a good Boy, and say your prayers
and are kind to your Ma, Nelly, Asahel & Clarrie and help
take good care of poor Blanch I want to have you be
carefol & not say any words that are Nauty and then the Lord
will love you I sent you a package of raisions and a Brass
top I think Asahel can show you how to spin it I wat
to say to Asahel that I want to have him excuse my
not writig to him now I will remember him next
time He has done well been a good Boy and He shall
be Blessed and you all have my Blessings
"Letter to Emma Manella Woodruff, 6 January 1877," p. 2, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/rRGk