In 1882, Mr. Woolley again went East, this time for rest and recreation, and spent some time at Sweet Springs, Missouri, where he met Senator Vest and had an interesting co[n]versation with him on Utah affairs. At Richmond [h]e visited David Whitmer, whom he described as "a tall, spare man, with white hair, worn somewhat long, of a pleasing address and kindly looking face, full of intelligence." He received his visitor kindly, though him[s]elf in feeble health, from the effects of a cyclone which had struck his house some time before. During the interview he reiterated his testimony as one of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon. Prior to leaving the Springs, Mr. Woolley had been asked by a certain physician from Philadelphia, to whom he had made known his intention of visiting David Whitmer, to find out from him what an angel looked like. Mr. Whitmer, on being told of this, smilingly said[,] "You may tell the doctor that angels don't have wings." Mr. Hughes, a banker of Richmond, declared to Mr. Woolley that David Whitmer was "a man of the strictest integrity and truthfulness, highly respected by all who knew him."
(Bracketed letters represent obvious OCR corrections from the Internet Archive djvu text of Whitney's History of Utah, vol. 4, p. 553-554.)