The Brigham Young Center

G. S. L. City, March 5, 1864.

Messrs G. W. Carlton and H. O. Pratt,
Telegraph Office.

Dear Sirs:

Peter, one of your employees, has made a little complaint to me, though with kind feelings towards you, and, in consideration of his having been crippled in the service, I have thought that he should be borne with and treated kindly. One of the operators in your employ, whose name I have forgotten, is said to use Peter very badly, and I wish you would advise him not to stoop so low as to quarrel with a cripple, and to leave Peter entirely alone, unless he can treat him with kindness.

While I am upon the subject, and to comply with the wishes expressed to me by the companies East and West, I take the liberty of hereby suggesting to you a few words of <friendly> advice. It certainly will please my feelings, and I am also certain it will be most agreeable to the feelings of Presidents Wade and Carpentier and the rest of the owners, to have all the conduct and duties in your Office invariably characterized by that soberness, propriety, courtesy, integrity and good order that have heretofore commended your Office and its employes to the good feelings of the public, as well as my own, and which I am sure the proprieters, were they present, would disire to be strictly observed. To do this it will be proper for you to carefully exclude all intoxicating drinks from the building, and to rigidly discountenance all conduct and conversation unbecoming the character of a moral, high-toned gentleman in the highest sense of the term.

This is the only course by which you can preserve the good character your Office and its employes enjoy, and these suggestions are made with the best wishes for your welfare by,

Truly your Friend

Brigham Young