I am abroad a[?] and [illegible]
half and more, your home
disunion[?]
of our Salt Lake City that had
been [illegible]
deare home, Sharon, [illegible]
to Mr. [illegible],
Harris, David Whitmer, &
Oliver.
Cowdery, I meant to tell,
commencing
them, Oliver Cowdery, [illegible]
and,
he acted before my time, he was
termed in Richmond Mormons, I
should
[illegible] before on his dying
bed, and
the then letter, home, I mean one
time
within a spirit from feeling him
enter
the present, a state of framing,
sure his heart and have a
perfectly satisfactory to the
truth
of what he had signed his name
he as one of The Three Witnesses,
[illegible], David Whitney, in
Richmond.
Joseph
W. Summerhays letter to Joel Summerhays, Hamburg, Germany, p. 4 (CHL call
no.: MS 2853)
Note: the pages of the entire letter are very faint. If
anyone can improve upon this transcription (and/or provide a transcription of
the entire letter), let me know.
