The Brigham Young Center

G. S. Lake City, April 4, 1864

Elder John W. Young,
Metropolitan Hotel, New York City N. Y.

My Son John W.:-Since writing A joint letter to you and your brother Joseph A. March 28, by hands of br. H. S. Eldredge, I have received your very welcome favor of March 13, and also a letter from Joseph, written at St Louis on the same date.

We were all much pleased with your letter, and felt grateful, with you, that you were all so much blessed in your journeyings.

We were pleased to learn of the good prospect of moderate terms for freight and passage to Wyoming this season, as that will by so much enlarge the sphere of our this years operations.

I am particularly rejoiced that you improved the first opportunity to speak to the brethren in their meeting, and trust, as you write, that you will improve every such oppertunity, for it will greatly benefit both yourself and the lovers of truth who may hear you.

Br. Hiram's letter, which you mention that he was writing has not yet come to hand.

Since bro. Hooper and Eldredge left for the States we have had much snow and rain, very timely and beneficial after the dry weather in March, and it is still stormy, satu-rating the ground with moisture and piling snow in the mountains for next summer's irrigation, thereby affording good prospects for abundant harvests from fields and gardens

After all the hue and cry about gold in Utah, I have not yet heard of any gold diggings with in our borders, and the miners are all gone and going either north or west.

This leaves home items easily chronicled, as affairs are moving along in a very quiet and peaceful channel. Owing to the stormy weather the 2nd Cal. Cavalry are yet on the bench, but expect to start as soon as the weather clears up.

Lucy is taking piano lessons from Fanny in the Bee Hive House, and Alice and children are doing well. Your mother's health was rather poor last week, but she is now quite smart, and to day is out riding.

Please write as often as you can find time, and when you write take time enough to express your ideas clearly, and look your letter over before sealing, to see whether any word is omitted, that your meaning may not be misunderstood, and even your letter writing may be means of improvement, for I wish you to profit by every facility for improvement in speaking, writing and all means for treasuring up and imparting useful knowledge.

Mother, Lucy, Brigham Jr., Alice Luna, George and all relatives and friends send love and best wishes to you, as Brigham wished me to do, and as of course all the rest would if they knew that I was writing to you.

I am daily looking for letters from Joseph A. and Hiram, previous to writing to them, which I expect to do directly upon receipt of their letters, and may sooner, if theirs are are too long in coming to hand.

That all needed blessings may attend you and your associates is the prayr of your Father.

Brigham Young

P. S.
I inclose a very good letter to you from br. W. P. Nebeker, which I took the liberty to open and read, and thought you would like to answer it

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