[first pass LKA]

your very welcome note came
Safe to hand & I asure you we
were glad to hear from you once
more after So long a Silence, and
to learn that you were doing well
gave us pleasure I had not been
long home from making a visit to
Salt Lake City to See Some of our
old friends I left here the early part
of last December with Stage So I
was gone from home threteen weeks
I was only five days& nights going
& the Same coming back There was nopleasure
in the trip but a good deal in the
visitI was recevid by all my old
friends with whom I
 chanced to meet
with the greatest kindness I had
the pleasure of a visit with B. Y
who also treated me with the greates