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Feb 16/89 Charlotte I.C. Kirby [illegible] Rec Feb 16th 89. Salt Lake City Feb 16/89. (no answer) Pres. Woodruff, Your kind answer to my personal recital, is rec-d, thanks. I have always found that "[illegible] extremity was God's opportunity", & in all my trials of that character, I have been driven more closely to the Arm of God, & have to learned to learn upon Him, that it could seem to me almost sacrilege to now, lean on man or look to him for guidance Christ says "give me thine heart." - I feel in my inmoral soul, that [illegible]
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heart is given to Christ ^ to the futherance of His great work upon this Planet, which dawns upon me more fully day by day. I beleive that you will be able to understand me! I see this see your writings an implicit reliance on faith in God, & love for the beautiful in literature & art, & the [illegible] evidences you have had of God's goodness are only confermations to me, that you are the right man in the right place. If we could only always know this, & when a man or woman comes to the point the very fact of their having the courage
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of conviction, shows that they are called of God.
I know, that the present work now opening before me is my work, my life work five years ago, I said to Aunt Zina, (In answer to her wish that I would work with the women & chiose a useful life in with theirs.
Aunt Zina when you are at the head of the women here I shall feel very differently, & when the women of Utah teach Suffrage, I shall come to the point, for that is my work." This must have been prophetic, for both conditions are now here, Altho Aunt Zina said, at this time, she did not beleive she would
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take that place. I want the confidence of my sister's & in time shall win it My heart & interest are both in this cause & I know how to further the work. I wrote an open letter to the women of Ameria as a greeting, on the formation of our [illegible] Society, it was read at our last Meeting & the vote carried that it should be published in Eastern papers - After the Meeting Dr. R. Pratt came up to the stand, & said she thought it presumptious in us to send such a letter, - & she would not like to have our organization appear riduc^u^lous. I [send] you should have voted a
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contrary mind then.- it is too late now.
This little circumstance was of great value to me - & showed me a wisdom. In my being placed there I was, I could write such a letter & have it warmly rec-d by the women to whom it was addressed for my personal acquain-tance with them, made it possible, & a social standing I held in washington, made Belva Lockwood say, "The lady from Utah has a strong friend at home, in her mother-in Law. John W. Candler." W. Candler was a personal friend of Gen. Garfield (went into office with him, - he is a