TO NEWEL K. WHITNEY
1840 DECEMBER 12

ALS. Joseph Smith, Nauvoo, Illinois, to Newel K. Whitney, Nauvoo, 12 December 1840, 1 p., Joseph Smith Collection, LDS Church Archives.

Nauvoo Dec 12th 1840
Brother Whitney

Dear Sir

I am at work in my office am under the necesity to have some help from time to time to help me along in my calling I therefore desire you to let the bearer of this hav[e] some of that dry wood to burn in the stove of my office and obliege your humble servent

Joseph Smith