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Show 240 the twenty-one year old wife of James H. Martineau and younger sister of Nephi Johnson, wrote a tender letter to her husband on May 30 which is quoted here in part: We received your letter this morning and was happy to hear of your being in such good health and spirits and we think of you when we sit at the table and wish you were here. We think of you almost every hour of the day almost and wonder what you are doing whether you have anything to drink &c.... Kanosh £bhe Ute chief/ paid us a short visit and said you bad gone to find a place for the women and children and he would stay here and fight with the men. Susan told him about tbe cave and he said it was good, he enquired very particularly about you and asked when you were coming home.... Oh james, if you get a chance send some more of those pretty stones the children were very tickled with the crystals you sent them and Moroni lost his and wants me to write to father to send him another.12 Louna, one of William H. Dame's wives, also wrote as soon as she received a note from her husband. "You dont say much about you[r] country," wrote the nearly illiterate Mrs. Dame. but I think I know pirty well wat you think abouft/ it if you dont say m/u) ch about it.... dont you worry any thifnj g about homfe} you have noed me long enuf to now I will do as near as you would as I can you havfej anuf to think of afairs whair you are.... take care of you self tell it rit for me to go thar.13 Mrs. Dame apparently thought she would soon be joining her husband in Meadow J-iey. While Brigham Young had already determined a hegira to the deserts was unlikely, the people bad been kept ignorant of the fact. On May 30 Salt Lake ity was nearly abandoned. As far as the people knew they would be resettling |