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
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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.
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You had beter talk with sister Foss about
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Mr George. A. Smith
Boston.
Ms.
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NAUVOO
Ills.
JUN
19
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Nauvoo Ill
June 15 th 1844
B W Smith
to G A Smith
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