my son Willard awaiting me at
the station I told him that you
was on the train and he regretted
very much that he did not
see you. I told him our conversa-
tion and he said if I receive a
release I will stay and take
care of the farm if I do not
I will go upon my mission
in the spring. So we agreed
that I should bring the children
here and put them in school for
the winter and return home in
the spring so that in case that
he did not receive a release that
he could report to you his
readiness to depart on his mission
Pres. Woodruff this is the way
that the matter stands and his
idea of buying a small place
in Tuba City was to leave his wife with her family in his abscance
my son Willard awaiting me at
the station I told him that you
was on the train and he regretted
very much that he did not
see you. I told him our conversation and he said if I receive a
release I will stay and take
care of the farm if I do not
I will go upon my mission
in the spring. So we agreed
that I should bring the children
here and put them in school for
the winter and return home in
the spring so that in case that
he did not receive a release that
he could report to you his
readiness to depart on his mission
Pres. Woodruff this is the way
that the matter stands and his
idea of buying a small place
in Tuba City was to leave his
wife with her family in his absence
"Letter from Alice Ann Richards Smith, 1 March 1893," p. 3, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 4, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/qlGr