Replying to your
letter of Jan 20th will say:
It is my sincere desire to
comply with your wishes and
offer my services as a
missionary, but at the
present time my circumstances
and affairs are in such a
shape as to make it next
to impossible for me to go
now, or at the time you
state in letter. I should
very much like an extention
of time, and if granted, shall
endeoavor to so shape my
affairs as to be ready to
respond as soon as possible
in the future.
Presdt Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City, Utah
Dear Brother:
Replying to your
letter of Jan 20th will say:
It is my sincere desire to
comply with your wishes and
offer my services as a
missionary, but at the
present time my circumstances
and affairs are in such a
shape as to make it next
to impossible for me to go
now, or at the time you
state in letter. I should
very much like an extention
of time, and if granted shall
endeavor to so shape my
affairs as to be ready to
respond as soon as possible
in the future.
"Letter from Charles Lawson Crawforth, 15 March 1894," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/vZyL