Dear Wifford I have come down to sister Smith before I milk my cow lest her letter should be gone to the office to tell you that we are all comfortably well at present the we have all had very bad colds Susan & Phebe have been quite sick Sister Eunice health is a little better. I received 5 doll[ar]s. from you from Newark, bought about 4 doll[ar]s. worth of lumber paid Balis one & now brother Webster is at work on the house the other front room and will go to keeping house by themselves when it is done, we have not yet got the flooring. O you do not know how much you are wanted to see about things here, Sister Smith says tell him to come home when Mr. Smith comes, I sup- pose she has written all the news there is much talk of a mob here but I have not had the first anxious though about it yet the authorities here demolished the press precisely according to law so they have left us (the Law party) they tried to land in Madison when the[y] left here but the inhabitants would ^not^ have them there so they went father on up rthe river they tried to get some printing done but the editors there told them that they would not do it for their press was in good repute now. Joseph has hasd a dream about the the Laws he thought they bound him and cast him and into a pit (or well like Joseph of old but he made a struggle and got to the top of the well so to look out and he saw a little distance from him one of them in the grasp of a tiger the other a smake [snake] and they were calling to him to help them he told them they had tied him and he could not help them a brother soon [written in upside-down text] came along and took brother Joseph out. Our garden does very well brother A Alexander is not going out this season brother Taylor is waiting for Joseph to say go to him, but there is much excitement here at present and he thinks he had better wait. (A messenger has beent sent to the governor has gone now) I want to see you much but had quite as lives you would be away now untill this fuss is over. I received 2 letters from home by Arthur Milliken saying that Luther would not come untill Sept. and I think sister Foss not at all I cannot say much to her on mothers account as she tells me she thinks smother would die almost or quite if she should leave. If you go to Maine I want you to buy 2 yds dark brown ribbon 1 inch 1/4 wide and give to mother for me with a kiss and tell her she has not got a child in the world that loves her better or will do more for her than her wandering Phebe, give my love to them all and ecept much love yourself P. W. W. [end of upside-down text] You had beter talk with sister Foss about [sideways text] 25 Mr George. A. Smith Boston. Ms. M [end of sideways text] [stamp in red ink] NAUVOO Ills. JUN 19 [sideways text] Nauvoo Ill June 15 th 1844 B W Smith to G A Smith [end of sideways text]