Autobiography 1857 Draft 1
untill I arived home ^I reached Nauvoo, which was on the the boat being 5 days getting over the
rapids. As soon as I delivered the paper to the office I went home and went to bed
and ^I was confined to my bed for forty days unabled to get up^ ^and^ passed through the most severe fit of sickness I ever endured in my life, my life
was dispaired of by many. I lay 40 days upon my bed unabled to set up at all I was adm-
inistered to by the Twelve, and others and my life preserved through the power of God I
took a relaps twice after I began to recover. Once was while in council with the presidency
and Twelve. my strength left me my breath stoped and I felt as though I was struck with
death it was with great difficulty that I was brought to by the laying on of hands. after
