Plain City May 10th 1897 President Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother, Your letter of May 7th in responce to the one writen to you by my Daughter is at hand, & I take this opertunity to express our thanks for the kind reply, & wise instructions which your letter contained, My Daughter has past through much afliction cince her Marrage, In the first place her Husba- nds Father lost his right mind & got deranged so at times he had ...

became verey weak, both in bodey & mind & she told me one day that she could not stand it aney longer, About this time the old Lady got verey low as if she was to pass away from this life & my Daughter told me that she prayed for the Lord to take her away & then she got scared & thought that she had comited & unpardonable sin & that she would be forever damed & there would be no salvation for her, I told her that ...

and get rebaptised & the Lord would shurley forgive her & she went & got rebaptised & felt much better for a while, but arfter a while the old feeling come back again & it seames as if the last state ^of her mind^ was worse than the first, I have said evrey thing to help & cheare, & comfort & incurage her that it was possable for me to do, but to no purpus, I told her it was not the Lord that was thus aflicting her, that she had become weak ...

Alonzo Knight May 10 [18]97. your letter, It was verey gratifying to me to find that your Council & advice was the same as my own, & now I trust that my Daughter will make an unfaling efort & put far behind her those evel inf- luences that they trouble her no more, for I can say that she is a good Woman. & if it was not so Satan would not be so buisey trying to aflict her. Again I thank you for your kind reply & wise Council ...