Posted by:
brucermalarky
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Date: October 29, 2014 08:07PM
I'm actually starting to like old Joe a bit. He didn't even try that hard to pretend it wasn't all about sex, and hiding it from Emma. Here's a letter he wrote to Sarah Ann Whitney. Another one of his "wives"
On August 18th, several weeks after the marriage, Joseph Smith wrote a letter to his new bride and her parents. He was hiding from the law at a home on the outskirts of Nauvoo: “...my feelings are so strong for you since what has passed lately between us...it seems, as if I could not live long in this way; and if you would come and see me...it would afford me great relief...I know it is the will of God that you should comfort me now in this time of affliction...the only thing to be careful of; is to find out when Emma comes then you cannot be safe, but when she is not here, there is the most perfect safty...burn this letter as soon as you read it; keep all locked up in your breasts...You will pardon me for my earnestness on this subject when you consider how lonesome I must be...I think emma wont come tonight if she dont, dont fail to come tonight...”