Dear President I ask you as I
would my father were he alive
to try to help me, pray for me
& may that channel of commu-
nication that is open between
you & the Heavens be opened for
my benefit that my fasting &
prayers may not be in vain &
that my children may not have
to suffer longer for the want of
a mother's care. I fear so much
for my mind for it is ^in^ a dreadful
state & it seems impossible to endure
it much longer unless the Lord
looks down in tender mercy upon
me & restores me to health; which
I have had faith He would do
for the sake of my helpless children
& because of long labor among the
children of the Saints which has con-
tinued more or less from the time
I was 15 yrs old.
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Dear President I ask you as I
would my father were he alive
to try to help me, pray for me
& may that channel of communication that is open between
you & the Heavens be opened for
my benefit that my fasting &
prayers may not be in vain &
that my children may not have
to suffer longer for the want of
a mother's care. I fear so much
for my mind for it is in a dreadful
state & it seems impossible to endure
it much longer unless the Lord
looks down in tender mercy upon
me & restores me to health; which
I have had faith He would do
for the sake of my helpless children
& because of long labor among the
children of the Saints which has continued more or less from the time
I was 15 yrs old.
"Letter from Emily Jane Newman DeLamater, 16 August 1897," p. 4, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/l511