I wrote you about the 12th. Ultimo enclosing a certificate of deposite on the Greenwich bank in this for four hundred and twenty five dollars, and requested that you would do me the favor to purchase land for me to the amount of about five hundred [d]ollars, and stated that I would remit you the remaining [s]eventy five dollars by the 1st of July next, but I shall probably be enabled to do so in the course of the ensuing winter, certainly by the first of May next. Not having received an acknowledgment of the receipt of the certificate of deposite, and supposing that you were probably prevented from acknowledging <​it​> by the pressure of other business, I wrote a few days since to Elder Kimball, requesting him to make the inquiry and write me, as I felt anxious to know whether it had reached you in safety. In my last I desired you to make the purchase within two or three miles of , but I have very recently been informed that the price of land is very high in the immediate vicinity of that , I should therefore obtain a very small tract for five hundred dollars. If this be the case, you will have the goodness to purchase land, (if you have not already done so) at any distance within ten miles of your , but you will please to act in this matter as if you were purchasing for yourself, for you are on the spot and perfectly well acquainted with all the advantages and disadvantages of location &c &c [p. [1]]