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o the excellent Head of The Evangelical Mormon Church of the Latter Days Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah,
My most excellent sir,
At the midnight of March 3, 1893, it is 40 year, I say forty, that I belong to the Sacred Religion of the Latter Day Saints, cristian mormon church.
I was baptized by the rev. Sir Thomas Nergets, passing by Genva in that time in the year 1853, that I was 19 years old, being born infact in the year 1833, and where I find myself now with 59 years, it is the 28th of October.
In truth my lord I had a stormy (problematic) life; I married in the year 1855, February 13th, and she died in BuenosAires on November 5, 1888, of hearth sickness.
We loved each other very much, we raised 10 children, 8 boys, 2 girls, 2 are dead, 8 are still alive, all are fine (and make some money?).
I live with my first born Cesare Giovanni, married.
I have always loved my co-religionist, helping them with their needs, when they would let me know speaking together, and for such (?)
I had to suffer many vicissitudes due to my children, who live in BuenosAires, 4 boys and two married girls, one with one Bypiano (?) Jose fabbrica di ciliegi (?) and the other with one Domingo Quadrio, head (of the mansion?) of the station of the railway in Bernal, that for helping them I almost lost all my money.
After the death of my poor wife, good and virtuous mother, the adverse fortune keeps persecuting me until today, such that I had to abandon Italy again, ungrateful homeland, to the mens that live in SestriLevante, where I had been called by a son of mine, who, when I arrived there, robbed me, betraying and ruining me, a real heartless son, who costed me the double of all my other children, and he even denied (robbed?) the food from my little nephews 4 girls and one boy, children of my first born Cesare: he called us from America after 5 years, and when we arrived he denied us the reimbursement of the Colombo Hotel, to him with my wife we had come with the agreement that he would have reinbursed us in case of returning or call, returning the disembarked (paid) capital, and so he left us in the street. The heartless parricide had written to us, I repeat, saying that he would have helped us; we came, we saw and we found everything the opposite, everything on the contrary, such a traitor.
We found ourselves in a dire situation, and having used all the little money we took to America from Italy, in various quarrels against that rascal (rogue) to obtain a justice never found, We thought of migrate again to America to New York, where we are since a year ago, abandoning so our ungrateful homeland with all that live there…