The Brigham Young Center

Salt Lake City. Utah Territory
8 February 1871

Mr William Worley.
Bristol, Bucks Co. Pa.

Dear Brother:
Your note of January 23rd is to hand. President Young being absent from home, I have taken the liberty to reply. It would be exceedingly unwise on your part and annoying to the President for you to ship goods to him without his knowledge and consent; and you would make a very great mistake, attendant undoubtedly with heavy loss to yourself to ship goods here at the present time with the expectation of President Young having any thing to do in the matter. What you do in buying or selling you must do strictly on your own responsibility, and even then I should advise you not to send goods to this distant market, without well understanding what you are doing, as the freight would probably absorb not only the profits but the first cost in the bargain. But this I would have you to thoroughly understand that even were the president at home there are no grounds for supposing that he would have any thing to do with this merchandizing, and in imagining this you have made a very great miscalculation, as the heavy duties and responsibilities of his calling entirely absorb his attention, leaving him no time, had he the desire, which he has not, to enter into an arrangement such as you would    apparently force upon him.

Yours Respectfully
Daniel H Wells