Letter from Richards, Winter Quarters, to Thomas L. Kane, they don't know anything about their permission from government to stop on Omaha lands, they don't know where Lyman Wight is, Winter Quarters is a good place for a fort and they are prepared to contract for the building of one, the leaders of the Church will leave for the West as early as possible, they will definitely settle in the Great Basin, thanks Thomas L. Kane for his efforts to help them, news of the Mormon Battalion. Dated February 16-19, 1847.