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and habits. You ask me how I like sea sick-
ness; well a little goes a long ways. I think England a verry pretty country & if they had our
atmosphere so pure & healthfull with about
one fourth the present population and they
about 400 years more modern in their
habits (for they are about that far behind the americans)
I would like to live here, but as they are to day
if I was offerd one half the Island it would be
no inducement. Of course this is an exageration
but I am not in love with the country.
Preaching is up hill work for me I fear it
is not my forte, still I keep pegging away and
may accomplish something in two years. We
have not had any rain for three weeks, the
people tell me they dont remember a time when
the rain held of so long at once. I learn from
from the papers you are having high watters
at home, well I expected as much considering
the vast amount of snow there was in the
mountains I wrote a letter to mother the other
day in answer to one I recieved from her, trust
she got it all right. I see by the paper that
Welcome is again sentenced to be shot
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and habits. You ask me how I like sea sickness; well a little goes a long ways. I think
England a verry pretty country & if they had our
atmosphere so pure & healthfull with about
one fourth the present population and they
about 400 years more modern in their
habits (for they are about that far behind the americans)
I would like to live here, but as they are to day
if I was offerd one half the Island it would be
no inducement. Of course this is an exageration
but I am not in love with the country.
Preaching is up hill work for me I fear it
is not my forte, still I keep pegging away and
may accomplish something in two years. We
have not had any rain for three weeks, the
people tell me they dont remember a time when
the rain held of so long at once. I learn
from the papers you are having high watters
at home, well I expected as much considering
the vast amount of snow there was in the
mountains I wrote a letter to mother the other
day in answer to one I recieved from her, trust
she got it all right. I see by the paper that
Welcome is again sentenced to be shot
"Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 1 June 1884," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 19, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/kDwK