Dec 15th 1835

President Smith

Sir you may esteem it a  novel circumstance to receive a written commu nication from me at this time.

My reasons for writing are the following. I  have some things which I wish to communicate  to you, and feeling a greater liberty to do it by  writing alone by myself, I take this method;  and it is generally the case that you are thronged  with buisness and not convenient to spend m uch time in conversing upon subjects of the  following nature. Therefore let these excu ses paliate the novelty of the circumstance  and patiently hear my recital.

After the committee had received their stock  of fall and winter goods, I went to Elder [Reynolds] Cahoon  and told him that I was destitute of a cloak and  wanted him to trust me until Spring for  materials to make one. He told me that [p. 70]