Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1882

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October 2, 1882-Swords Creek, Virginia
My Own dear loving wife & babe
"...I trust that by the time this reaches you that dear Polly will be settled with you for the winter in our own little home, where true love health and happiness may reign supreme in the hearts of the loved ones there....I see by the papers, that things in the Church, and political affairs are getting very interesting just-now. It looks like the deep laid schemes of the Evil one, to bring trouble upon the Saints, are beginning to succeed to some extent, and they may be felt quite seriously before we are delivered from these persecutions."
October 7, 1882-Provo City, Utah
Absent but Dearly loved Husband
"...it is with a degree of pleasure that I report all at home well and hearty. You would be surprised to see how plump and rosy Nina has grown, and for myself, I have never felt as well since you left, as I have the last two weeks. I have been quite thin all summer, for me, but am gaining flesh now and feel quite well....And now I will tell you of a step I have taken, which I hardly know whether you will approve of or not. I have taken Ener Armstead to board."
October 13, 1882-Provo City, Utah
My own loved husband
"...I have been feeling poorly for several days, caused I think, from a jar I got in a buggy going down home the other day. Yesterday I felt very seriously indesposed, and had Polly and mother both here to stay last night, but am feeling better today though still quite poorly....I am often lonesome, for there is hardly any one comes in and I am not able to walk much, so I am alone.... If anything should happen that I cannot write to you for awhile again, I will try to have Pollie write every week, to let you know how we are...."
October 13, 1882-Jeffersonville, Virginia
My own loved ones at home
"...I have not had to use either [coffee or bacon], only when I was fit, on the whole I have been exceedingly blessed in everything except in bringing souls to a knowledge of the truth...I find it very difficult to teach people who can not, and will not read or think for themselves; they are like little children, who have imbibed errors...."

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1882

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