Letter from A. B. Cook, 16 March 1896 [LE-15528]

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Layton, Utah,

President Wilford Woodruff
Salt Lake City,

Dear Bro, Your notice of March 11th,
saying that I had been selected for a
mission to the Northern States received.

I regret that matters are such that
I cannot arrange to go as you request,
but if I ever see any way clear I will
endeavor to fill the mission to which
I have been called. if you do
not see fit to release me from same.

For the last four and a half years
I have acted as business manager for
The Layton Milling & E. Co. of this place,
but on April 1st I retire from that
Position. During all of this time I have
laid out every dollar I have made
for a home for my family, so that when
I get the few small debts paid which
I am owing I will have about
$2000 or $3000 left to support my
family on the coming season.

I have property that I would glad-
ly dispose of and fill the mission now
if I could possibly turn same into cash
but I cannot do so.

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My family consists of four small
children ranging from six and one
half years down, with the prospects of an
other about the middle of May. Now
that I am out of employment and will
not succeed in getting anything to do until
Fall I can say that I have the "blues".

I am a cripple having lost my
right arm, and when absent from
home find some troubles in adjusting
my clothing

I have laid these facts before
you, and if you think them sufficient
for a permanent release would like
to do so, but if not hold me
for future service

Your Bro. in the
Gospel.

A B. Cook

I think he should be honorably
released from the call, to devote
himself to the care of his family
and to doing all the good he can
at home. But if he should at
any time feel himself prepared
to take a mission, and desired it,
he could let us know. J. F. S.

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A. B. Cook
Mar. 16 [18]96.