Kalihiwai Kauai S. Islands Feb. 7th 1855 Brother Woodruff Dear Sir In compliance with your request, I will endeavor to improve the present opportunity by writing a few lines to you. With a few slight exceptions I have enjoyed good health since leaving the valley. I presume you are aware of our delay at California, which was occasioned by circumstances that we were unable to control, therefore I believe it was all right. I landed at Honolulu the 24th of December in company with Bros. Caine ...

conference. Bros. Johnson Karren & Lawson have gone. I believe the work is prosperous on these Islands generaly speaking, although the faith of the saints areis weak in some places, they are a weak minded people and unless continualy stired up will becom[e] slack and negligent. at one branch where I stayed a couple of weeks, the Presiding Elder and a number of the members threatened to leave the Church in consequence of having to feed us, but there are many good saints ...

think it is very doubtful about its taking place very soon, as the present King is very much opposed to it. He think that the inhabitants of the Islands will be considered no better than negros by Americans from the fact that while traviling in the United States he was once called a niger by some one that did not know him, the King is about 21 years old but looks much older. The laws of this Kingdom do not appear to be such, as the necessities of the people require, but tend rather ...

Edward Partridge Feb 1st 1855 [sideways text] 1065 + 65 = 1130 – 680 = 450 350 – 285 = 65 $500 + 90 + 30 + 60 = 680 [end of sideways text]