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W. Woodruff,
Oct 24^th 1885.
Ans'd Nov. 15^th, 85

St George Oct 24 [18]85

My Dear Leslie

Your Letter of Oct 14 is before me And I seat
myself this morning to Answer it I hope your way
may be opened in a financial point of view to graduate &
get through It seems as though circumstances with
me ^are^ of such a Nature that I am kept Ground down to the
Last Dollar when I ought to have means on hand all
of my Rents have stoped Except Brixon and a Lawyer
had to be employed to stir him up I still have $207
taxes & $100 [instance] to pay this fall which I could have paid
Well Enough if It had not Been for Bulahs affairs
She still owed $300 on that Note of Shears which was in
the hands of a Lawyer and had got to Mortgage her
place to Borrow that money and Grand Ma wrote me to get
the money for her & save her Mortgaging her House which I did
do & had to Borrow a part of it from the bank but they did[n't]
tell me how much. Leslie I have had the hardest work to
Learn from any of my family about my temporal business of
any thing I Ever under took I can get No one to tell me how
much they Receive or how much they pay out I have never
known how much Rent was Recd in April, May, June July or Aug
or what Became of it I got the Aco[un]t of Sept. This matter has
been unpleasant to me We get No Rent from Any one ownly
Brixens & he is forced to it by a Lawyier. If I could get
my Rent I could Loan you some but being away from
home I cannot attend to my business I should have had
some $70 from my wool this spring And I have never
been able to get one word from Bishop Crane upon the
subject this summer though I have written him several