Letter from Ezra Foss Richards, 24 August 1897
Prest Wilford Woodruff,
Salt Lake City Utah.
Dear Brother: We are in receipt
of your favors bearing date of June 21st and
July 8th; also draft for equivalent of $200
as reffered to in the former.
Elders Aldous, Hardy and Holbrook have
arrived safely and been assigned to their
fields of labor. Elder Bunot having
just met me when I received your request for
his immediate release, it was at once acted
upon; and he in connection with Elders
George Jarvis and Bryant Ashby left for Zion
21st Inst. Per S S Warrimoo. The former had
been in the mission little short of two and
a half years and the latter little rise of
that time both laboring among Europeans.
Elder Bunot learned prior to leaving
that his dear mother departed this life the 7th ult.
hence her desire to again look up on her worthy
son in mortality, would not be granted.
One week previous, per S. S. Aorangi, Elders
Hyrum Cook and Jedediah G Casper left
the mission to return to Zion. The former
having spent two years and a half among
