Salt L City Dec 27,1884

Pres John Taylor

Dear Brother

I cauled at your house last thursday to have conversation

with you concerning my future salvation [.] I did not explain my

feelings or wishes to you [.] I realize my race & color & cant expect

my Endowments as othe.rs who are white I .. ] My race was handed down

through the flood & God promised Abraham that in his seed all the

nations of the earth should be blest & as this is the fullness of all

dispensations is there no blessing for me [.]

I with my Fathers family came from Connecticut 42 years

the 14th of last Oct[.] I am the only one of my Fathers family that

kept the faith[.]

you know my history & according to the best of my ability I

have lived to all the requairments of the Gospel[.] when we reached

Nauvoo we were 9 in the family & had traveled 9 hundred miles on

foot[.] Bro Joseph Smith took us in & we staid with him until a

few day[s] of his death[.]

Sister Emma came to me & asked me how I would like to be adopted

to them as a Child[.] I did not comprehend her & she came again[.] I

was so green I did not give her a decided answer & Joseph died & [I]

remain as I am[.] if I could be adopted to him as a child my Soul

would be satisfied[.] I had been in the Church one year when we

left the East that was 42 years the 14th of last Oct[.]

Br Taylor I hope you will pardon me for intruding on your

[time?] so much & hope & prey you will be able to lay rny case before

Br Cannon & Br Jos F Smith & God will in mercy grant my reques[t]

in being adopted to Br Joseph as a Child[.]

I remain yor Sister in the Gospel of Christ

Jane E James