Rochester Sangamon County Illinois Dec 19th 1838 [FIGURE] Eunice Woodruff My Dear Sister Although I am in the midst of a croud & but a few moments allotted me to write yet I feel it my Duty to appropriate these few moments in communicating a few words to you & my Dear parents. I thought it proper to direct this sheet to you in consequence of the writing on the 3rd page which is the production of Brother Asahels pen which I found among his papers which appears to ...

his clerk said to never find a more [page torn] task than to part with him he said he never saw a [page torn] mind than his he also remarked that he was very absent minded for several months before his Death cheerful most of the time but occasionly lost in Deep meditation he spent muc^c^h of the time During his last months among his friends in public at ^times^ almost to the neglect of his business this was a secret they could not account for (But I could have told them that it was his mind upon spiritual subjects ...