Dear Brother
In answer to the letter I received
Jan. 19th 1894 In regards to a mission
to Great Britain you wanted
to know what my feelings were
in regards to it I have felt all
the time that I would like to go and
and peform the mission vary much
if my circumstances were so that I
could go I have been trying ever
cince I received your letter to Sell
what littele property that I have
to rase money to go with but have
not been ablle to cell anything yet
my Circumstances are not vary good
I have nothing to depend on for a
liveing but by days works
I have got a wife and four small children
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to support with my work I have a team
and a house and lot I have no land
to depend on y my way of getting
a liveing is by farming on shares mostely
as long as I am at work we can get along
vary well But if I should go I would
haft to leave my famly to the mercy
of the people this in is about the way
I am fixed But my disire is to go yet
If I can get the money but under the
preasent Circumstances I would like to
be excused at preasent But I I am left with
you to do as you think best
Feb 5th 1894
President Willfurd Woodruff when
the President of the Elders quorum
reported Bro Schofield to me he said
he would go if Caled but he has
not ben able to rais the means
your Bro. in the Gospel James A. Allred
Bishop
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Let him be excused until he
can report himself ready. J. F. S.
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