Letter from John Waltus Judd, 23 August 1897
Salt Lake City, ., 189
Wilford Woodruff, President,
Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S.
Salt Lake City. Utah.
Most Reverend Sir:
I am in receipt of a letter from Geo. E. Hill, one of your
Missionaries, directed to me from Waterford, Miss., which I herewith
take pleasure in enclosing to you. Permit me a word of explanation:
In more than one instance it has been my pleasure to give a
letter of recommendation to your Missionaries when going into my
Southern country, especially my State of Tennessee, as well as from time
to time having by word of mouth commended them to my people there and
solicited kind and christian treatment in their behalf. When Mr.
Hill left here last April I gave him a letter—of which he speaks in
the enclosure. Of course, with the detailed statement of Mr. Hill's
work I have no special concern, except that gratification which comes
to any citizen upon learning that another is being well treated and
is performing a christian work which, let us hope, is always calculated
to better whoever may accept and act upon such teachings. I great-
ly appreciate Mr. Hill's painstaking letter to me, for it gives me an
insight into the work that I myself before did not understand.
You will note that he asks me for a further letter stating
what I know of the people of Utah and of the country in general. I
have by this mail written to him in answer stating substantially
that I have been all over the State of Utah, from one end of it to the
