Letter to David Hale, 12–19 February 1841

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[Feb. the 12th 1841 A.D.]
<​Most​> Gratefull and ever respected relative [I] feel a pleasure in communicating to you my [present] situation. I am living with unkle Joseph Smith. I am enjoying good health and unkle Josephs fa[mily] are all well at present. I received a leter from home about four weeks agow they were all well [and] Silas had been at fathers two weeks. I have no[t seen him] as I left home in Octber. r[eceived a] letter from you and was much pleased with it. [as well] as unkle Joseph I was pleased with the respect [you] showed to Unkle Joseph for I think it is no more than [he] merits from those that should be his friends [as he never] has injured us or layed a straw in our way as [I know of] but has ever expresed the greatest degree of [friendship.] he offers to each of you brothers 80 akers of land [if you will co]me to the City of the land is in in what is called the it is [said to be of] a superior quality of both timber and priarie, [well watered] &c I have no dout that he feels a little pride [in being] situated in affluent sircumstances that benevolent [he can] offer the benevolent hand to the relatives of his [that is] most dear to him when I came to and [finally always] ever since I knew unkle I have entertained a strong [irreligious] unprovoked prejudice against him and no doubt [we all have] but since I came here my prejudice has left me like [the] chalf before the wind the Doctrines that the Mormons promulgate and their construction of the scriptures [is] I think correct as far as I have become acquainted with it where is the man that knows that he [is] a propogating a religion that is false and founded on hypocracy that will not forsake it when placed at [the] point of fifty bayonetts and summoned to renounce [his faith] or die or imprisoned for months <​and​> fed on human flesh seasoned with arcenick <​and​> tared and feathered and [various other] fiendish devlish tortures inflicted upon him. [p. [1]]
Feb. the 12th 1841 A.D.
Most Gratefull and ever respected relative [I] feel a pleasure in communicating to you my [present] situation. I am living with unkle Joseph Smith. I am enjoying good health and unkle Josephs family are all well at present. I received a leter from home about four weeks agow they were all well [and] Silas had been at fathers two weeks. I have not seen him as I left home in Octber. received a letter from you and was much pleased with it. [as well] as unkle Joseph I was pleased with the respect [you] showed to Unkle Joseph for I think it is no more than [he] merits from those that should be his friends [as he never] has injured us or layed a straw in our way as [I know of] but has ever expresed the greatest degree of [friendship.] he offers to each of you brothers 80 akers of land [if you will co]me to the City of the land is in in what is called the it is said to be of a superior quality of both timber and priarie, [well watered] &c I have no dout that he feels a little pride [in being] situated in affluent sircumstances that he can offer the benevolent hand to the relatives of his [that is] most dear to him when I came to and [finally always] ever since I knew unkle I have entertained a strong [irreligious] unprovoked prejudice against him and no doubt we all have but since I came here my prejudice has left me like [the] chalf before the wind the Doctrines that the Mormons promulgate and their construction of the scriptures is I think correct as far as I have become acquainted with it where is the man that knows that he [is] a propogating a religion that is false and founded on hypocracy that will not forsake it when placed at [the] point of fifty bayonetts and summoned to renounce his faith or die or imprisoned for months and fed on human flesh seasoned with arcenick and tared and feathered and [various other] fiendish devlish tortures inflicted upon him. [p. [1]]
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