Letter to Ammon Meshach Tenney, Peter Julius Christofferson, and Christopher Jensen Kempe, 17 December 1884
S. L. City, .
A. M. Tenney, P. J. Christofferson
and C. J. Kempe.
Dear Friends:
I write to say that I have received several
letters from Bro. Tenney, including one from Chicago
of Dec. 11th. I have not answered any of them for I
have not known were to reach you. I will now say
that you have a large circle of friends, who deeply sym-
pathize with you in your afflictions and you have the
consolation of knowing that you are not imprisoned
for the cause of theft, robbery, burglary or murder, or any
other crime known in the black catalogue, but your
imprisonment is for conscience's sake in endeavoring
to carry out in practice one of the tenets of your
religion, and we hope and trust that this fact, in
connection with your good behaviour, and strict observance
of the rules of the prison will give you favor in the
eyes of your warden, that he will be willing to grant
you all the privileges that the rules of the prison may
permit. I would like to be informed if you will
be permitted to receive ^and read^ the Deseret News as published in
