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Preston Idaho Sept 4^th 1893

M^r ^Pres^ Wilford Woodruff

Dear Br^o,

as to your enquiry as regards me being
prepared to take a mission to great Britto
would say that I have been sick for two
years through a strain caused by lifting
I am on the mend now
and if I continue to mend as I have
done of late I shall soon be able to get
around, and then I would be too
pleased, to be at your service
as I would like first rate to visit my
native country once more
I left there when a small boy in the year
1850 and I think by going back there I
could gather up some of my Genealogy

Your Bro in the
Gospel of Christ
John Martin

W. C. Parkinson Bishop