Also what word of Language the name of your Religion is taken from and what the Word Mormon Implies

My Reason for thus advising you is this I have heard . . . <​&​> Seen so many fales [false] and contradictory reports respecting all these that In order to come at the facts I have ask[ed] this from your own pen when I am certain you Will give me facts that may be fully relied on

one of your preache[r]s pass[ed] through this county last winter I did not See him myself but got a favorable report both of the man and his doctrine here

In the South we are in a measure In darkness respecting both your principles and progress of your and religion [p. [2]]