I wrote a letter to Brother Asahel a while since I
would like to hear from him I have paid for your
papers the ensuing year I hope you get them when
you write let me know they contain many interesting
things. I bid you farewell for the present may peace
feath & prosperity attend you—{is the prayer of your son Wilford Woodruff}
I am enjoying the best of health
& have been since I began to travel
I have not herd from any of my
relatives for a long time I had
a letter from you about one
year since & one from Brothr
Asahel since yours is all
the intelligence I have
receieved since I have
been in the South
a Letter from you
or any of my friends
would be receieved
with thanksgiving
W. W.
25
Mr Aphek Woodruff Colebrook Litchfield County
Connecticut
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[upside-down text]
I do not know what length of time I
shall spend in this country we have
a conference to attend to the
last of this month when I shall
decide where I shall spend
the summer if you write
to me Please direct your
Letter to Chalk Level
Post office Benton
County Tennessee
I much desire to
hear from you.
Willford Woodruff
When you write to me give me the news of the day
with you the death of any of my friends if any there
should be I would like to hear from Brother Azmons
family their circumstances &c. if you should know
about them Uncle Ozem Woodruff's family Also Aunt Cossetts family & all the friends By so doing you will bestow
a great favor upon me as I feel anxious to hear from
you all I have written a number of Letters to you &
to other friends in the East I cant say they have been receieved
[end of upside-down text]
Sister Eunice
write some
do me if
you ple
ase.
[end of sideways text]
I wrote a letter to Brother Asahel a while since I
would like to hear from him I have paid for your
papers the ensuing year I hope you get them when
you write let me know they contain many interesting
things. I bid you farewell for the present may peace
feath & prosperity attend you—{shorthand}
I am enjoying the best of health
& have been since I began to travel
I have not herd from any of my
relatives for a long time I had
a letter from you about one
year since & one from Brothr
Asahel since yours is all
the intelligence I have
receieved since I have
been in the South
a Letter from you
or any of my friends
would be receieved
with thanksgiving
W. W.
25
Mr Aphek Woodruff
Colebrook Litchfield County
Connecticut
end of sideways text
I do not know what length of time I
shall spend in this country we have
a conference to attend to the
last of this month when I shall
decide where I shall spend
the summer if you write
to me Please direct your
Letter to Chalk Level
Post office Benton
County Tennessee
I much desire to
hear from you.
Willford Woodruff
When you write to me give me the news of the day
with you the death of any of my friends if any there
should be I would like to hear from Brother Azmons
family their circumstances &c. if you should know
about them Uncle Ozem Woodruff's family Also Aunt
Cossetts family & all the friends By so doing you will bestow
a great favor upon me as I feel anxious to hear from
you all I have written a number of Letters to you &
to other friends in the East I cant say they have been receieved
end of upside-down text
sideways text
Aphek & Azubah
Woodruff
Willford Woodruff
Sister Eunice
write some
do me if
you ple
ase.
end of sideways text
"Letter to Aphek Woodruff and Azubah Hart Woodruff, 7 May 1836," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 30, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/G9z5