Letter #1
Elvira Dix
My dear sister
I received your kind and
welcome letter and was very thankful to hear that you are well and enjoying
good health we are all well at preseant Dear sister
I am sory that you feel so much when you saw the
likeness ( a family picture sent to her).
Dear sister the children are all right ane I
hope the summer is not very far off that we will see each other if please
God David do want to come away with the
train to Utah to his aunty little David
he is in great trouble what will we do
draws(drawers) and the furnichure that we got in the
house he want to know if we can carrie them to Utah with us Thomas is quite well he asking for his anty very often
little William is quite well Willam have been one week in the house bad he is got well again Dear sister I hope you will enjoy yourself on
the twenty forth of next month I am sorry that you are in such a fix about your
young man I would like to see you in your new close I expect you are cutting a swell
in them Cousin Joseph when he had a suit
of black close we had fun with him he
did not know the way he put himself Dear
sister I hope the Lord will bless us all with health and strength Dear sister you no need to think much about
us but be happy always and then things will come around better we must have
time a little time we don’t know what
will come forth I do my best towards
coming I prey god to bless you and bless us all every night and morning
Elvira Dix x x
x x x x
Letter #2
Dear
sister I have toke the pleasure of
writing you these few lines hopping it
will find you in good health as it leaves us all at preasant you do have the toth
each all the time Dear sister we
received your letter and was very glad to hear from you we are very glad to hear that you do like
your place well David Dix is in school
everyday up in Morris he is well he havent been bad
since you went away he do ask very often
were is aunty Thomas is well and he got so much toungh(tough)
you would not think little William is quite well Dearest you ont be
hear to go to Langaflach fair this time me and William are in the concert and
mother we enjoyed yourselfs(ourselves)
very well cousin Joseph was singing in
the consert
Eliza Rees do send her kind love to you and her mother Anny Rees do send her kind love to you and her sister David Landers is married and living with is
mother Dear sister I hope it not far
that we will meet in Zion I hope the
Lord will bless you Kind love to all my
relatins kind love to sarah
Llewlyn the
saints is swansea are just the same now as they was
when you went away William Dix
Dear
sister I hope you are well I have got
the toth each this week I hope you will do well I am glad that you do like your place so
well I was afraid you was working to
hard if I has mony
I would like to come out to see you I
do often think of the fun we use to have in hour house I have lost the only one that I use to have
fun with you are just the same I
suppose the chrildren
are well so no more at preasant from your effionate brother William Dix and true sister Elvira
Dix I hope the Lord will bless your Daer sister is my prayer mornings and evenings Elvira Dix
Write soon more next time
Letter
#3
This letter was sent with
Elvira’s
William Dix Dear sister I received your kind and
welcome letter and very glad to hear from you and glad that you are well I am well at preasant I have been one week bad
not working and am well again
the children talk enought about you I have yet to set the garden with your mother
again I will come to Utah I am sorry you are in such a fix about your
young man and your stepfather Your sweet
heart is nearer to you than stepfather I
am sorry for you that your sweetheart do live so far from you that you cant see
him often give my kind love to him I hope you will have a good one give my kind love to all our relations and
Sarah Llewyne
you must tell me something about her young man in the next letter We are working six turns we have been about two months working four
turns it is coming again my father have been in bristle under the opperation he could
not see with one eye he can see now with
one eye there is a great deal of people
dying very sudden hear I would be a long
time naming them I hope you do have some
fun sometimes I do often think of the fun we use to have I should be with you and your sweetheart on
the twenty forth of next of month so no more at preasant William Dix
Letter #4
Dear sister Mary Ann, I received your kind letter. I was glad to hear that you like the place so
well I was glad to hear that you was so
well on the sea I hope that you will do
well I
hope that you won’t get married until I come to Utah for me to come to
the wedding I was glad to hear that you
had a good Companion on the trip We are
working six turns for a little while I
don’t how long it will be my father is
very bad in the rumatic he cant move from bed I do think very often the fun we use to have
in our house I think that you are the
same there I havent
got place to write more for you
Your brother William Dix
(William’s letters were usually added to
the end of Elvira’s letters)