"I have heard nothing from home since October 1st, but I hope to hear soon. I congratulate you on the marriage of your first born, and hope you will soon become a grandfather.
"Now, dear brother Orson, be of good courage—our pilgrimage will soon be over, and our personal history in this world will naturally come to the word FINIS.
"As to my history, I have it now complete from my birth up to to-day. It will contain about as much reading as the Book of Mormon. I would publish it, in part or in full, if gold was plentiful. * * *
"I have written to Nelson Pratt and received an answer; he is well. I am going there soon, if all is well.
"I am to start from St Louis for home just as early in the spring as the weather will permit. Farewell! God bless you.
"I am your own brother,
"P. P. Pratt."
GENEALOGY
The following correspondence, extracted from a letter from my brother, Orson Pratt, Sen., dated at Washington, D. C, March 10th, 1853, throws a clear light upon our ancestry, back as far as the earliest settlements of the Pilgrim Fathers in Saybrook and Hartford, Conn.
"My dear brother Parley—I embrace the present opportunity to write a few lines to you. * * *