are there I shall probably see you. I am gratified to learn of your prosperity in
temporal business, & I hope you will prosper in spiritual things before you
die. You made one request in your letter concerning sister Eunice which
I will answer with pleasure. In expressing myself to you upon that subject
I shall speak in confidence & unreservedly for, I consider your request
to be perfectly consistant with the interest you have taken in her well-
fare. Brother Asahel you spoke of being disturbed in your subject by a person
coming into the store I waited upon you in this will you give me the
same privilege. Thomas Arey has just come across the bay with a wherry (what we used
to call a skiff or boat) & wants Phebe & I to go home with him & spend the night he says he will bring
us back in the morning & so I suppose I must go I will continue the subject in the morning. [FIGURE] Jan 6^th I have
got back we had a good sail & a plesasent time. the son shines as warm as summer the water most as still as if
nature had ceased to breathe the people say they never saw such weather here before in the winter [FIGURE] I am
glad I did not fill this sheet last night for just as I came into Capt Coombs's house this morning Mother Coombs handed
me two letters one of them was from Brother Asahel, Dated Terre Haute Dec 10^th I have red it through & through,
& there is much I would like to say concerning it hiad I time & room. I was glad to learn that you receieve the
mormon papers. I sent word for the Elders Journal to be sent to you, I trust you will get it. You speak of not liking
the stile & spirit of the letter from England for my part I see no impropriety in a servent of God expressing his desires
for the wellfare of his family, if there is I have it yet to learn, however, I do not intend entering into any argument
upon the subject. from your remark I conclude you have receieved the first no of the Elders Journal. Tehere
now the captain has set a bowl of dried raisins before us to heinder me awhile. I hope Brother Asahel you will
excuse this long adjunct flung in the face of Sister eunice. I will haste to answer your reasonable request

I wish you to bear in mind that Sister is advancing in life as well as ourselves
& in giving you a description of her I can do no better than to state simple truth,
which is the best in all cases. Sister Eunice was a child of about 11 years when I first left
her in Colebrook the day before I left I took her by the hand & led her out on a
walk of 15 or 20 minutes & gave her good advice the image of her childhood countenance
remained on my mind & I could not bring any other appearance of her to my mind
except the one she was clothed in when I shook her by the hand as a little girl to go to the
west with Azmon, & this was always the case with me untill I returned last sum-
mer to Colebrook & wraped at her school house door & I will will assume you Dear
sir that wrap was made amid enexpressible sensations, when In an instant our
ownly sister stood before me took me be the hand & saluted me with a kiss, then
at that instant all of her former appearence her childish countenance departed from
my mind & recollection like electricity, yea with the rapidity of lightning. & it is
as much impossible for me now to recall & imagine in my mind how she look'd &
appeared at 11 years of age as it would be for me to imagine how you will look &
appear at 40 should you live untill that time, for you will beare in mind that a
female receieves the greatest change from 11 to 17 or 18 of any period. On seeing Eunice
I found her midling size in stature not tall, rather stocky, but of a pleasing form
with the appearence of a young woman or Lady (not a child) I think she has the looks
of Philo in her countenance. Wien I first had an interview with her she was vary
resereve bordering upon a distance. I suppose because I was a Mormon priest. you

are there I shall probably see you. I am gratified to learn of your prosperity in temporal business, & I hope you will prosper in spiritual things before you die. You made one request in your letter concerning sister Eunice which I will answer with pleasure. In expressing myself to you upon that subject I shall speak in confidence & unreservedly for, I consider your request to be perfectly consistant with the interest you have taken in her wellfare. Brother Asahel you spoke of being disturbed in your subject by a person coming into the store I waited upon you in this will you give me the same privilege. Thomas Arey has just come across the bay with a wherry (what we used to call a skiff or boat) & wants Phebe & I to go home with him & spend the night he says he will bring us back in the morning & so I suppose I must go I will continue the subject in the morning. [FIGURE] Jan 6th I have got back we had a good sail & a pleasent time. the son shines as warm as summer the water most as still as if nature had ceased to breathe the people say they never saw such weather here before in the winter [FIGURE] I am glad I did not fill this sheet last night for just as I came into Capt Coombs's house this morning Mother Coombs handed me two letters one of them was from Brother Asahel, Dated Terre Haute Dec 10th I have red it through & through, & there is much I would like to say concerning it had I time & room. I was glad to learn that you receieve the mormon papers. I sent word for the Elders Journal to be sent to you, I trust you will get it. You speak of not liking the stile & spirit of the letter from England for my part I see no impropriety in a servent of God expressing his desires for the wellfare of his family, if there is I have it yet to learn, however I do not intend entering into any argument upon the subject. from your remark I conclude you have receieved the first no of the Elders Journal. There now the captain has set a bowl of dried raisins before us to hinder me awhile. I hope Brother Asahel you will excuse this long adjunct flung in the face of Sister eunice. I will haste to answer your reasonable request

I wish you to bear in mind that Sister is advancing in life as well as ourselves & in giving you a description of her I can do no better than to state simple truth, which is the best in all cases. Sister Eunice was a child of about 11 years when I first left her in Colebrook the day before I left I took her by the hand & led her out on a walk of 15 or 20 minutes & gave her good advice the image of her childhood countenance remained on my mind & I could not bring any other appearance of her to my mind except the one she was clothed in when I shook her by the hand as a little girl to go to the west with Azmon, & this was always the case with me untill I returned last summer to Colebrook & wraped at her school house door & I will assume you Dear sir that wrap was made amid enexpressible sensations, when In an instant our ownly sister stood before me took me be the hand & saluted me with a kiss, then at that instant all of her former appearence her childish countenance departed from my mind & recollection like electricity, yea with the rapidity of lightning. & it is as much impossible for me now to recall & imagine in my mind how she look'd & appeared at 11 years of age as it would be for me to imagine how you will look & appear at 40 should you live untill that time, for you will bare in mind that a female receieves the greatest change from 11 to 17 or 18 of any period. On seeing Eunice I found her midling size in stature not tall, rather stocky, but of a pleasing form with the appearence of a young woman or Lady (not a child) I think she has the looks of Philo in her countenance. Wien I first had an interview with her she was vary resereve bordering upon a distance. I suppose because I was a Mormon priest. you