Jones, Mary Mathews - Letter

Sep 17th

Mary Jones

Dear Daugher

I received your kind and welcome letter and was very glad to hear of you well and enjoying good health  we are all well at present thank God for it  dear daughter I am very glad to hear that you enjoyed yourself so well on the twenty forth of July  I should like to see this turn out very much  dear daughter I am sorry that you are going to lose your companion  I hope that she is not going to live far from you  give my kind love to her  I hope she will do well  Dear daughter I should like to see you once again  we have had a very good summer   we have got very good potatoes this year   the money you sent for my pass is in the office in Leverpool until I come to Utah  I hope if please god that some way will open for us all to come next spring  we do our best for to come   we cant do no more  your sister Elvira is near her confinement  if I was to come away before her she would not have nobody with her afterwards  dear daughter I should like [to] see you in your new close  I hope you will enjoy yourself until we will see each other again  give my kind love to your young man  I hope you will have a good man when you will have one  I should like to be in Utah when your wedding will take place  give my kind love Eliza my sister and her family and to Joseph and nance and Tom and his family  give my kind love to Janes children if you are going to see them  your cousin Joseph do send his kind love to you and your companion  he do say that you are doing well with the young men there Enoch Lewis do come to see us very often  we see it very od without Jones in the meeting in Swansea  the saints in Swansea are now just the same as you saw them before you went away  Ann Rees Morriston do send her kind love to you many times  she don’t live with her husband again  Dear daughter so no more at preasant from your dear mother  I hope the Lord will bless you is my prayer morning and evenings  write soon

Mary Jones