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![đź’Ś Read this letter (below) from Joseph to Emma while in Liberty Jail. It gives you a real peek into his personal and family life. đź’Ś
Dear—and affectionate—Wife.
Thursday night I sat down just as the sun is going down, as we peek through the grates of this lonesome prison, to write to you, that I may make known to you my situation.
It is I believe now about five months and six days since I have been under the grimace of a guard night and day, and within the walls, grates, and screeking iron doors of a lonesome, dark, dirty prison. With emotions known only to God do I write this letter. The contemplations of the mind under these circumstances defies the pen, or tongue, or Angels, to describe, or paint, to the human being who never experienced what we experience. . . .
We lean on the arm of Jehovah, and none else, for our deliverance, and if he doesn’t do it, it will not be done, you may be assured, for there is great thirsting for our blood in this state; not because we are guilty of anything. . . .
My Dear Emma, I think of you and the children continually. I want to see little Frederick, Joseph, Julia, Alexander, Joana, and old major [the family dog] . . . I would gladly walk from here to you barefoot, and bareheaded, and half naked, to see you and think it great pleasure, and never count it toil. . . .
I bear with fortitude all my oppression, so do those that are with me; not one of us have flinched yet. I want you [to] not let [our children] forget me. Tell them Father loves them with a perfect love, and he is doing all he can to get away from the mob to come to them. Tell them Father says they must be good children, and mind their mother. . . .
Yours,
Joseph Smith Jr.
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