# Letter to Hyrum Smith, 3–4 March 1831
# Date: March 3, 1831 | Source: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/letter-to-hyrum-smith-3-4-march-1831/1
# Scribal status: holograph (retained copy entirely in Joseph Smith's own handwriting; JSP source note: 'handwriting of JS')
# Spelling: original (Joseph Smith Papers verbatim transcript); deletions, editorial glosses/footnotes, and address panels removed

Kirtland Geauga County Ohio
March 3th 1831
Brother Hyram
we arived here safe and are all well I have been ingageed in regulating the Churches here as the deciples are numerous and the devil had made many attempts to over throw them it has been a Serious job but the Lord is with us and we have overcome and have all things regular the work is brakeing forth on the right hand and on the left and there is a great Call for Elders in this place we have recieved a leter from Olover dated independence Jackson County Missouri January the 29th 1831 these are the words which he has written saying—
My dearly beloved bretheren after a considerable lengthy journy I avail myself of the first opertunity of communicating to you a knowledge of our situation that you may be priviledged of writing to us for we have not heard any thing from you since we left you last fall we arived at this place a few days since which is about 25 miles from the Shawney indians on the south Side of the Kansas River at its mouth & delewares on the north I have had two interviews with the Chief of the delewares who is a very old & venerable looking man after laying before him & eighteen or twenty of the Council of that nation the truth he said that he and they were very glad for what I their Brother had told them and they had recived it in their hearts &c— But how the matter will go with this tribe to me is uncirtain nether Can I at present Conclude mutch about it the wether is is quite Severe and the snow is Considerable deep which makes it at present quite dificcult traveling about I have but a short time to write to you my beloved Bretheren as the mail leves this place in the morning

but I wish some of you to write to me immediately a full letter of all your affairs and then I will write to you the situation of all the western tribes &c thus reads most of the letter Saying to us the god of my father Jacob be with you all amen I remain in Christ your Brother forever
Oliver
My Dearly Beloved Brother Hyrum
I have had much Concirn about you but I always remember you in my prayers Calling upon god to keep you Safe in spite of men or devils I think you had better Come into this Country immediately for the Lord has Commanded us that we Should Call the Elders of this Chursh to gether unto this plase as soon as possable
March forth this morning after being Colled out of my bed in the night to go a small distance I went and had an awful strugle with satan but being armed with the power of God he was cast out and the woman is Clothed in hir right mind the Lord worketh wonders in this land
I want to see you all may the grace of God be and abide with you all
even so Amen
your Brother forever
Joseph Smith Jr
PS if you want to write Oliver direct your letter to independence Jackson County misouri

Harrison and Oson prat arrived here on Feb 27th they left our folks well David Jackways has threatened to take father with a supreme writ in the spring you had beter Come to fayette and take father along with you Come in a one horse wagon if you Can do not Come threw Bufalo for they will lie in wait for you God protect you I am Joseph
