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Mesa Arizona November the 7th 1897
President Wilford Woodruff. Salt Lake City, Utah
Dear Brother in responce to the call I Rec'd
July 31st for a call ^mission^ to the Southeran States I will say that
under my present financial circumstances I do not think
that I could go and do Justice to my mission or the
Church of Jesus Christ with my mind on a mortgaged
Home and the indebtedness which I have become
some considerably involved in. I do not think that Pres-
ident Stokes fully understood my ...
Excerpt:Mesa Arizona November the 7th 1897 President Wilford Woodruff. Salt Lake City, Utah Dear Brother in responce to the call I Rec'd July 31st for a call ^mission^ to the Southeran States I will say that under my present financial circumstances I do not think that I could go and do Justice to my mission or the Church of Jesus Christ with my mind on a mortgaged Home and the indebtedness which I have become some considerably involved in. I do not think that Pres- ident Stokes fully understood my ...