Isaac Wardle Partial Letter, March 8, 1879

Partial letter [When I find the original I will scan it]
In corner  Wardle Good by aman [Isaac’s Writing]
Wigan March 8 1879 Lanchershire [Lancashire] Englend
Dear Wives and Children it is With plusher that i have the optuney [opportunity] to Righ [write] to you hopin thisse fue Lines Will fin you Well as it Leves me at this time with the Excpten of a very Bad Cold Wich i have had for 3 Whicks[.]  But i hope as Warme Whather is Coming i shall be Beter soon.  i have Notherd from you or home since i Left But i hope to hear Before Long[.]  i Did Not know Whare to tell you to Wrioght to me till Nowe so i Excuse you].]  i have Been appointed to the Leverpool Confrenc to travel unger the drecten of Elder I Branten[.]  i Was at the half year conference Last Shunday With the Church athroites in England and We had a good time[.] the …

Isaac Letter Jun 3, 1879,

Isaac in this letter proposes a name for the baby, Atheamer.  The name he proposed was Abraham for a boy and Sarah for a girl.
Wigan Jun 3 1879 La Ed
To my Dar Famaly, it is With plusher that i have this privlig to set me Down to anset your most Walkam faver of may 14[.]  i Was thankful to all myty god that he had brought you all safe thrue so far and that you are feeling so Well in sperits and that god Bleseng is With you[.]  i hope that you Will Live so as to keep that good sprit for with out you nor i can be Comforted in all We have to pas thrue[.]  i Wood be very glad to bee at home again to have the privleg to talk to you all and to see my Dear Wives and Children and to Comfet you and to teach you the fath i Wood Like you to go but i have not aney falt to find With my Lot[.]  i knower that this is Work of the Lord[;] that [pg 2] i ham in godez in [God’s hand] and you all[,] so this will be the gratest Experence of my Life as i told you[.]  i Did think When i said What i was saying as i do now but god as haver [ever] been With me in all i have been Callad to pas by is [his] spirit[.]  bee of good Cheer[.]  all Will [be well] if We put our trust in god[.]  mathay [Martha] you said that you Wood like me to send you a Litle Comfort[.]  i hope i have not sent Eney Think [anything] Elce as yet and i hope i never shall[.]  i hope that god Will bles you and strethen you for Wat you have to pas and that you and the Dear Litle one may Live to halp to Bild up god kingdom for this is the most that i have on my mind[.]  it seems that i have nothing [else] to Live [pg 3] for[.]  i Wood like if you Wood name the Babey if it is a boy Abraham[.]  fi [if] a girl Call it Sarah[;] but if this dus not sut you all Right I ham not bitter??.  Du as seemeth you good[.]  i hope that you and all of the family Will be of good Chear and not fret a bout me[.]  Do the Best you Can for your self[.]  when you Can help me Du it but i Do not Want you to sent me Eney thing when you Nead it[.]  i Wood like if mother Egbert Wood be With you Whan you are sick and tell father Egbert i Wood Like if he Wood Come up and see to you as i am not thare my salf and spand a Day wonce in awile [once in a while] With you[.]  i hope he Will hill this mishin[.]  it is just as much [h]is this mine—to see to [h]is dauter[.] [pg 4]  father i told you 20 years a go that i Wood Do the very bast that i Cood for you Dauter[.]  I now am faray Way [far away][.]  i hope that you Will Not think it to much truble : tell all of the boys i Wood be very glad to hear from them[.]  I have not had time [to] Right to Eney 1 [anyone] lasely [lately] as i travel from house to house Evry Day[.]  i gat home Every t[w]o Wheaks to stay 1 or 2 Days and start again[.]  my time is taken up almost in preachin talking to the peple from Morning till 10 to 12 o Clock in the Night: beside other Things i have to see to on Sunday[.]  i genely [generally] atend 5 to 6 Meetings so you see that i kep bizey.  John Do Wat you think Best Weather you gat marid or Not but i Wood Like to be thaire With you to heat som muten and puden[.]  Du Not Right only one Every to Weks as i Do not get them till i come home.
[this is the end of this letter although there was likely more]

Isaac Wardle Note, Jan. 22 1879 Wyoming

Isaac wrote a to his Family from Wyoming, where he was taking a train to his mission.


Wyoming
Jan 22 1879
Dire [Dear] Wives and Children,  i am Well this Morning[.]  hop ethat your [you’re] fine[.]  We are gaining 25 Miles for hour[.]  the snoe is not so Deep as it is at home[.]  We are in the finas [finest] care that i Ever see[.]  i is Warm an comfabel[.]  We shall be in neu York Shundy [Sunday] at Metings Wich as been apinti 2 hear us[.]  Isaac John Wardle.  God is with us.

Isaac Letter Home August 26, 1879

Isaac talks about his health, and announces his return home in this letter.

Rancon?  AG 26 1879  E D
Dear Wives and Children i set doune to Right a fue Lines to you hoping they Will find you Well as i canot say that i ham Well but i think i am some beter them i have been for some time pass[.]  the Wather is getting some thing Like our Wather His and it makes me feel beter then the Cold Days has done in the past but it keeps on Raining all most every Day[.]  i think i have not seen more then 47 Days since i came to Englen that is has not Raned or snoed so you see that this is a Damp and Cold Contrey[.]  i hope When i get home that Chang Will Do me god and in prove my halth as i have no hopes that it Will be Eney [page 2] beter hear and precedent Budge think the same[.]  i have this Day turned over all of the a Counts Blongin [belonging] to the Chesher Districk to Elder Bunling and he takes Charge of the afares in this Districk[.]  now i starte in the Morning to visit the Wigen sants as i feel that I shood not Do justis to my self and them if i Did not Do it an thay Wood Like to see me[.]  thay send me Ward to Come before i go home as thay Canot Come to see me.  i have got meny frends in this Contrey that Wood Like me to stay With them[.]  i Wood Like to stay if i Cood Do it as i feel that i Cood Do them good but i hope hat some one Will [ pg 3] be apointed that Will do more than i Can[.]  my feelings is With the people in this Contry for i knows that thay is a good peple hear but i Canot stay With them[.]  thay is good prospects a hade for the Elders that Comes after me for i have made meny frneds among those that Dos not belong to the Church[.]  it is Comon for me to go in to houses and to Comanc [commence] to talk to peepel that i never saw before[.]  When i told some of them that i Was going home most of them said Don’t go a Way yet[.]  We Will Do all We Can for you if you Will stay With us but That’s is same[.]  Wood be glad if i had vener Come if you hard them holer after me[.] [page 4]  you Wood think my name Was Changed as thay Call me Brigham in a grate maney plases that i go or mormon hou meny Wives have you got[.]  i have got quite huste [use] to it Now[.]  in our Tone [town] meetins you Wood think some times that a big man Like me Wood be Eate up[.]  but i all Was [always] try to come out beter then i go in for[.]  god has Dlivered me and those that as been With me When i have been blest with Compney[.]  it is not allthe time that i have had Compney[.]  i have been 3 to 4 Weks at a time and not seen a Elder to speek to[.]  i have thought some times if i Cood see a black Cat from home i Wood kis it[.]  this is the Condisen of [pg 5]meney of the Elders that is heare[.]  i tell you When We get to see Eath [each] other We now hav to shake the hand[.]  you may think this is foley[.]  if so i say to such Come and try it a Litle Wille [while][.]  i have no fault to find for it has been a grate Check to me[.]  if i had my halth i Wood Like to stay 1 or 2 years Longer[.]  i Never Enjoye myself Eney beter in my Life then i have Dun in traveling among the peple[.]  Thair is a joye that the World no [know] not of and meney of the brethren Canot Relise it till they have a Chance to try it[.]  With feelings of reget i penn these fue Lines to tell you that i ham comen home to you With my body full of pains[.]  but i hope that the Lord [pg 6] Will spare my Life to get home to you a gain[.]  i feel a frad [afraid] of the see [sea] as i know What it is to Cros it[.]  Thay Will be Robed Dancey {Dancie] With me so i am told[.]  Thay is 6 of the Elders Coming home sick With the same complant[;] some worse then others[.]  i shall not be hable to bring you Eney presents as i have not got the mens [means] to it[.]  if i get me self Thair i think i shall Do very Well[.]  you may think of seen old Jhe [John] but i Don’t knoure Wather it is or not  Whan I Look in the glas[.]  Do not Right to me Eney moreat present[.]  We shall start on the 6 of sep[.]  All been Well[.]  so no more at present from you husband and farther. 
Isaac J Wardle  rebers [remember] to give my Love to all[.]  the kises for you all XXXXXXXXXXXX to Zion the leap

Isaac in the New York Times 1879

 This article documents Isaac's return trip, but also talks about polygamy

How They Regard Secretary Evart’s Letter of Protest to the European Powers.

Among the passengers of the Wyoming yesterday were 335 Mormon recruits, under the leadership of N.C. Flygare, and including 16 other elders, viz: Ralph Smith, Charles Monk, John Larsen, William McFadden, Isaac Wardle, R. Dansie, William England, Jonathan Midgley, Thomas Child, R. Nielson, John C. Scofield, J.F. Olsen, N.P. Nielson, James Hansen, G. Anderson, and William Goodman.  All names, except Scofield, are returning missionaries, having been in this country before.  They journeyed across comfortably as cabin passengers, their followers being relegated to steerage.  About half of the latter are Scandinavians, the rest being English and Welsh.  They are an unintelligent looking crowd, but are fairly clean as compared with other batches of their brethren who preceded them in Castle Garden.  They are nearly all in families, and the sexes are about equally divided.  There are about 50 children and 25 aged person who have relatives in Utah.  They left last evening for that Territory via the Pennsylvania Central Railroad.

                The importance of the arrival consists mainly in the fact that this is the first batch that has come hither since Secretary Evarts sent out his famous letter of protest against Mormon Proselytism in Europe.  The Elders yesterday said that the Secretary’s letter had been widely published abroad, but had not met with a very favorable reception.  Wherever it had not been pitched into, it had been mercilessly ridiculed.  Many persons were of the opinion that is was a canard, not being able to believe that anything so absurd could be seriously father by the American government.  The Mormons were not disturbed by it in the least.  They considered that they had just as much right to preach their peculiar doctrines as any other religious body, and they looked upon the notion of prohibiting emigration, because there was the possibility of the emigrant violating the laws of another country, as too ridiculous for contemplation.  They claimed that polygamy is not taught as something to be enforced, but as permissible.  Abroad it is never practiced, and only in Utah here.  The ”revelation” about polygamy was given in 1843, and it was practiced in Utah from that time until 1862 before the United States Government made the slightest move to suppress it.  In the latter year Congress passed a law against it, but no attempt has ever been made to enforce that law.  The recent prosecutions, which resulted in the conviction of Reynolds, were instituted under an old Territorial act, and Reynolds could not have been convicted had it not been for the defection of members of his own family.  Out of 19 or 20 cases, his was the only one that it was found safe to proceed upon as a test one.

                Such were the statement of the Mormon elders.  They professed to look upon the new movement against the latter-day Saints as a purely spasmodic outbreak, that will soon die out and end in nothing.  They announce that a further consignment of their brethren will reach here in October. 

The New York Times Published: September 17, 1879 Copyright The New York Times

Isaac Mission Letter Home August 7, 1879

In this letter Isaac gives some detail of his illness.
Digmoore Ag 7 1879 Loneshire ED
To my Dere Wives and Children good morning to you one and all[.]  i hope that you are all Well at this time[.]  i hom very glad to tell you that my halth is much beter than i have been for some time thank god[.]  i have been in the hands of very find frends[.]  i make mantin of Bro and sister Marsh and Wilksen at Wigan all[.]  John tinsely and glover Newtoune and sis Ruebetem up holen and Bro and sister Derby shirs at Digmore and many others as far as thay Can make one Cumfeble Wich i feel thankful to hall mity god that he as been so minful of me as to Rase up frends to minester to me in time of need and i hope and pray that god Will bles them for Evry thank that thay have Dun to Comfert me [pg 2] in my aflicton thrue Wich i have past so far[.]  i have ben Releas from been [being] presedt of the Wigan Districk on the a Count of my halth and appointed to prisede [preside] over the Chester Districk to Wich place i have been once[.]  present Budas and bunting told me to travel Eney Whare i thout proper for 1 or 2 Wheaks but thay Wood Like me to bee in Liverpool at Confrence on the 17.  This Climit [climate] is very injures to meney of the Elders[.]  it as Raned [rained] all this Wheak[.]  We had 4 or 5 Day Dry Wather the Last 2 Wheaks.  4 Days before that Whe only had some 4 or 5 Days that Whe sawe the sune[.]  it Ranes most all the time[.]  i Do not see how the Erth Drink all the Water that Comes frome abote[.]  it looks Like the judgments of god as come in this Land[.]  I hope that [pg 3]the Lord Will gather out is sants before the grate Deluge shall Come on the Wicked for i can see tham Coming very fast[.]  i mean them that i spoken of in the 18 Chapter of Ravelation[.]  it Wood be good for our yong men to Reed that Chaper and to inform them selves with pidetions [predictions] of the servants of god.  i have injoyed my salf very much in my Labers travling and preaching to the sants and i tell you i Never felt haper [happier] in my Life than I Du in speeking to thos house [who] no [know] not the gospel of god.  in the open house our out Done meetings as been very Well attended[.]  We have a Litle opesition but that nothing[.]  it honly halpe to make us to prepare our selves for the Work of god and to put our trust in him and We feel [pg 4] that he as Ever been With us for When the Larned Minersters Come to oppose us We Come of [off] vistores [victorious] and We have had frands in Every place to We have been opposed for god as given us his sprit[.]  so far I recved my son John Later Dated July 6:  i was glad that he felt to due all that he had to make me and my famaley comfoble[.]  i was sorey to Larne the lose of sheep but i thout Like gave the Lord giveth and the taketh a Way[;] blessed bee the Name of the Lord: i Will Do my Duty to the Best of my ability if god Will be so kind to give me his sprit to gide me thue this Life so that i may Receve Eterneal Life in the World to Come[.]  Wives and Children Be fathful to Eath [each] other and to your god and i knows We shall meet [pg 5] again[.]  Do not Du Enething to heart [hurt] one another feelings.  Comfert another all you can[.]  i feel in my hart to Bles you all and ask god to bles you and i hope that you Will [be] preserved from all the snares that beset mortles heare on Erth[.]  i Wood be glad to see you all but Wate till the Right time shall Come[.]  I shall right [write] you before Long to informed you how my halth is[.]  i have not wrote much to you Latley on accunt of me halth[.]  i hope that you and all of my breathen Will forgive me for it[.]  tell all the nebers [neighbors] i have not forgo them[.]  i Wood be glad to hear from them Eney time[.] [pg 6]  i Expct to Right to maney of them When i Can set at a table[.]  the resene [reason] is that i Can not[.]  i have got bad pane [pain] in my Brest and kidneys[.]  i Can Walk Beter than set daune to Right[.]  bee of good Chear [cheer] [.]  all Will be Right With me[.]  i got a Later from J A dover? The other Day[.]  tell him i feel thankfull it[.]  i Will Right him as soon as i Can[.]  i must Conclude With my Love and Efecten to you all[.]  take Care of the Baby[.]  send me Word how he is[.]  good by[.]  god bless you all is the prare of your husben and father Isaac J Wardle[.]  Bee good Children[.] all right a farther [father] a little peace in a Later if no more make a X

Dad's 1943 Scout Hike in the Tetons

 Dad's Scout trip was to Table Rock.  This was a week or so before he went to Boise to enlist in the Navy.  He would have been 17, almost 18.