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we have ben stopping in S. ampton
has gone into the poorhouse, so
we have had to hire a little room
and get a bit of a bed together so as
to have a shelter when we go there. It
is not a very luxurous couch concisting
as it does of an old straw tick to lie on
and a few bits of. well they may have ben
blankets once, for a covering, still it
serves as a shelter. We have but two
places now where we can sleep without
paying for it, and we have to buy a
good deal of our food so it takes some
monney on a mission in England. A
penney piece looks about as big as a
wagon wheel, they are getting so scarce. I still weare the hat and shoes I
left home in but they are getting very
9
we have ben stopping in S. ampton
has gone into the poorhouse, so
we have had to hire a little room
and get a bit of a bed together so as
to have a shelter when we go there. It
is not a very luxurous couch concisting
as it does of an old straw tick to lie on
and a few bits of. well they may have ben
blankets once, for a covering, still it
serves as a shelter. We have but two
places now where we can sleep without
paying for it, and we have to buy a
good deal of our food so it takes some
monney on a mission in England. A
penney piece looks about as big as a
wagon wheel, they are getting so scarce.
I still weare the hat and shoes I
left home in but they are getting very
"Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 23 February 1885," p. 9, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 3, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/XnkV