After a full day council
on important business I seat my self at the table
to answer your kind Letter of Aug 14G Q. is
walking the floor, J. F. S. Reading the Newspaper and [Ressiton] has gone into the Tithing yard to see
what twoMarshals are after there so I have
nothing to do for 5 minuts but write to you
Though I have no great News to give ownly
We are busy turning a big [Augur] to make
a StateGovernment and abot 1000 other things
I got not much Exercise ownly nights on which I call upon E almost Evry Evening but
she is afraid to have me stop. Asahel is making
a calculation to build a House He started yester-
day to drive him a well they drove down 106 feet
yesterday got a little water 5 gal a Minutes I Expect
He has gone Down 50 feet to day making 156 feet &
I shall look for a good stream of water to night
I am going to see Brother Thompson has been
watching the whole operation yesterday & to day to Learn
After a full day council
on important business I seat my self at the table
to answer your kind Letter of Aug 14G Q. is
walking the floor, J. F. S. Reading the Newspaper and
Ressiton has gone into the Tithing Yard to see
what twoMarshals are after there so I have
nothing to do for 5 minuts but write to you
Though I have no great News to give ownly
we are busy turning a big Augeun to make
a StateGovernment and abot 1000 after they
I got not much exercise ownly nights on
which I call upon E almost Every Evening but
she is afraid to have me stop. Asahel is making
a calculation to build a House He started yesterday to drive him a well they drove down 106 feet
yesterday got a little water 5 gal a Minutes I Expect
He has gone Down 50 feet to day making 156 feet &
I shall look for a good stream of water to night
I am going to see Brother Thompson has been
watching the whole operation yesterday & to day to Learn
"Letter to William and Rachel Thompson Atkin, 19 August 1887," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/wEEJ