Letter to Clara Martisha Woodruff Beebe, 20 October 1885 [LE-5360]

Oct 20, 1885

My Dear Clara
It seems a good while since I heard
any thing from you My Last letter
to you was the 3 Oct I would be
glad to hear from you and know
how you are and your Mother & the
children I got a letter from Phebe
Snow last night I think
from her Account her Mother
is pretty badly Hurt she says she
is ownly able to set up long Enough
to have her bed made She thinks
also that Wilford child has got
the Diphtheria and thought it
would die I want to say to you
& to Owen Blanch & Alice I dont
want any one of you to go there or any
other place whare the Diphtheria
is If the Diphtheria once gets estab-
lished in a family of children it is
Liable to carry to the Grave all the
family of children If a child of
mine was to die of that disease

I would not want any funeral or any
child to see the corps this may
seem hard but no so hard as to
have to follow all the children with
grace, it is far more Dangerous
than the small pox and almost as
contagious you have had it twice
I hope you may not have it again
or any of the family I seen a Note
in one of the papers that it was in
the family of James Woodruff
but I heard no thing from it
afterwards I understand that Julia
is getting Better well I suppose
Asahel is coming home while
I am very glad of, the company
will leave Liverpool on Saturday
the 24. He wants to visit Liverpool
Washington & Philadelphia I hope
He will get home safe He has had
18 months of hard Labor mostly
preaching in the streets He will Miss
his Continental tour but that

cannot be helped I wish you
would write to me and till me
how you all get along give my
Love to your Mother & all the Children
I am Enjoying very good health &
at present I have ben lately
a correspondence with A M
Cannon in the pen and I have had
Excellent Letters from him I got
a letter from A M Musser last
night I got another Letter from
Asahel Had wisely supposed it
was his Letter when I came
to read it it was from
Thomas E Ricks the presedent
of Bannock State [Stake] he had been
closed so much in this coun-
try He had gone to London
write to me when you you
can I would Like a letter from
the children. As Ever

W.