Letters and Manuscripts — Volume 7 (1891-1892)

Lt 78, 1891

White, W. C.

Petoskey, Michigan

June 2, 1891

Previously unpublished.

Dear son Willie:

I have just received a line from Brother Maynard containing three drafts; each draft value, eight hundred. 7LtMs, Lt 78, 1891, par. 1

Now if I can pay up the Smouse note bearing interest of seven per cent, I will do it. Shall I send you the drafts? I will send two with this. I shall want some of the third draft for living expenses. I must build a barn for I am in constant anxiety about my Jessie. 7LtMs, Lt 78, 1891, par. 2

I now want the money from sanitarium for temperance book. I had one dozen books that will come out of the note. They wrote to me that there were two hundred and eighty, something I cannot remember, to my account. I now want the money. Will you draw it and send draft to me? 7LtMs, Lt 78, 1891, par. 3

I have received a letter from Elder Fulton which is a perplexity to me. I told him as I paid the interest on Cordivant’s note, I should expect the rent of the house would be paid me. He says he has pruned the orchard and plowed it and charges the same to me. Now, if this is so, then I shall have to use the fruit the orchard bears to settle its own bill. I send you the letter, and the deeds are here. I am perplexed about this matter. What the man means, I cannot determine. I wrote to them in reference to the bargain being completed but their answer was, They must have the note for the property where the barn stands. But that could not be found. 7LtMs, Lt 78, 1891, par. 4

St. Helena property is good property but what they mean about this statement, I cannot tell. 7LtMs, Lt 78, 1891, par. 5

Now I shall not urge or appear anxious to sell to them. They may buy or let it alone. St. Helena place is a delightful place to me, but I never had any chance to stay there when I had any strength to enjoy it. All worn out, I have been there a few times, a short stay at a time. 7LtMs, Lt 78, 1891, par. 6

Well, I send this to you. The deeds are here. No use to send them, for before they return I shall, if I feel clear, sign them. If not, shall wait till I do. That is good property, and I do not enter into your fears and feel the hurry that you do that I would meet with loss in closing the trade. I have a beautiful, paying orchard. I put in new trees last year. 7LtMs, Lt 78, 1891, par. 7

Mother.