Your letter, as a call for me to go
on a Mission to Switzerland and Germaney, has come to hand severall
weeks ago, and I beg your pardon for wayting
so long before I have answered.
My feelings, my wish and desire is, to
respond to the call, and I hope that no
evil Power can hinder me. I hope to
be ready and prepared to start at the
apointed date and from the apointed place.
I do not know what may happen untill
that time, it seems my Enemies has not
forgotten me; I have been absent from
home since the 8th of March 1887, and
now I have received word that my
Family has to go to Ogden to appear
before the Grand Jury as Wittnesses againts
me. I do hope, that I will not be
The 6th of January 1889
President W. Woodruff!
Dear Brother!
Your letter, as a call for me to go
on a Mission to Switzerland and
Germaney, has come to hand severall
weeks ago, and I beg your pardon for wayting
so long before I have answered.
My feelings, my wish and desire is, to
respond to the call, and I hope that no
evil Power can hinder me. I hope to
be ready and prepared to start at the
apointed date and from the apointed place.
I do not know what may happen untill
that time, it seems my Enemies has not
forgotten me; I have been absent from
home since the 8th of March 1887, and
now I have received word that my
Family has to go to Ogden to appear
before the Grand Jury as Wittnesses againts
me. I do hope, that I will not be
"Letter from Christian Schneider, 6 January 1889," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/L9Kg