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Great Salt Lake City, U. T.,
January 9th, 1866.
Mrs. M. L. Fay,
Box 2904, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Dear Cousin,
Your favor of December 13th came to hand to-day, and has been perused with interest. I recollect my visit, in company with Cousin Willard Richards, to your father's house at Boston with great distinctness, though I believe it is twenty-nine years since we were there. The lapse of that time has effected a great many changes. Cousin Willard has been dead nearly twelve years; his brothers Phinehas and Levi and his sister Rhoda are still living here. I have four brothers here, three of whom are older than myself, and all of whom enjoy pretty good health. I have no Sisters living. Cousin
Jesse Haven, and his two sisters Nancy Rockwood and Elizabeth Barlow, children of Aunt are in this country with their families
Your letter contains the first news I have heard for many years about your Uncle Lucius or your Aunt Selina and Caroline, and I am pleased to learn that they are still living.
You ask respecting a Book and Music Store and whether such a store would pay in this country. I have heard that there has been an intention expressed by some person or persons to start such a store; but, up to the present, no steps have been taken that I am aware of in that direction. I think such a store would do well here and would be a good thing, and I would recommend it to your friend, if he has a desire to enter into such business. In starting such a store, however, a good stock should be laid in and all kinds of stationary should be furnished.
Music teaching is a pretty good business here and the demand for good teachers is, I think, increasing. I should be pleased to have you or any of the rest of my connection come out here, you would find many friends and receive a cordial welcome.
My third son, John Willard Young, who is about making a trip to the East on business, will start from here about the first of February. He has had considerable experience in travelling, this being his third visit to the East, besides he has travelled in Europe, and is well acquainted with journeying across the plains. I have given him your Post Office address, and requested him to call upon you at Cincinnati. He will be able to answer inquiries and give you information that would be difficult to transmit through the medium of a letter.
With kind regards,
I am, Yours Truly,
Brigham Young
P. S. As we have only your P. O. address it will be necessary for you to write him a line, and leave it at the Post Office to be called for by him, giving the address where he can find you.