[first pass HF]
[Mormon Battalion / MB MSS 528 David Wilkin to Steeln BYU / lib.byu.edu David WilkinVault MSS 528;_Page_4]

Mary & Elisabeth I think it was

Elisabeth but I can not remember

but it was the Baby which was

born in the old Fort the furst gril

in Salt Lake — when his mother

come to see me & of corse brought

hir leeving the baby I had to put

my watter bucket out of the way and

dish rag too or She mad a fine busness[…]

for me, well, well — She is marred

Oh! how time passes on — & how

old times comes over me as I write

yes! life turns back upon its barid[…]

years, Oh! my friends what is life. it

seems a wild dream — O, how I would

like to See you for a few days &

talk our cold hearts warm agin

we have been barid[…] to each other

for years — will I will lend you

my Photograph that all you can

have of us all present I would be

happy to lend David two but

we have none at present that is

good this is a new place & there is

no artist or place of the kind & we

do not know yet weather we shall Stay

here more then this Summer our home

has been in Carson for the last Six years

we only rent here the last few years

busness got dull there — but it is not

much better here, it is about So everywhere

ill I must quit for the present Jane our