[Salt Lake City, Utah ?]
I wish to inform you and your brothers that after much correspondence with George Albert [George Albert Snow, b. 1863] and saying all that I feel I could wisely say or do, He has flatly assured me that he cannot give up Effie Stodard [Effie Luvera Stoddard, b. 1865] and that there [they are] are engaged in Marriage and expect to Marry the 1st part of March [Monday 1 Mar 1886] or soon after.
I have written him to hold on till I return and I will either Marry them or get some other [?] to do so, rather than have them apply to any Magistrate or sectarian priest. But perhaps she may be influenced to comply with our [? ith] and rules. Let us all help him draw her to us and help save her if possible the only seeming means of saving George Albert [George Albert Snow, b. 1863]
from a bad fate.
Yours etc
Erastus Snow