[sideways text] answered [end sideways text] Private to yourself & family L. D. S. Historian's Office, P. O. Box 321, Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug 12 1887 Dear Brother Atkin Your kind Letter of Aug 3 is before me & while waiting for our breakfast this morning I will write a few lines in Answer I find myself vary busy these days as all the work that was upon President Taylor & Council is now upon me to Dectate & Direct in connexion with my ...

Brother Atkin Asabel is about to build him a House to put a wife in in the S. E. cornor of Emmas Lot He wants to put a concret or grout foundation 2 1/2 feet or so to the top of the ground will you please state to me asin a Letter wwhow that should be made He is thinking of Drawing the clops of granite from the from the Temple Block instead of common granite How would that do what proportion of Lime ...