leiter LETTER FROM BELLE harbis harlum SALT nake LAKE penitentiary august ath 1883 editor deseret newa news having just received the letter written by my young bisters and coworkers workers of mount pleasant though I 1 saw an account of it in your paper papers yet I 1 would deem it a privilege if you will allow me through your columns to express my thanks and sincere gratitude for the appreciation and sympathy which my youn young friends have expressed for m me t 1 truly appreciate the kindness which I 1 have hav received and wish to tender my heartfelt thanks to my many friends and the general public for the lively interest which they have shown in my behalf to look at it from a natural standpoint one would think my position very trying yet I 1 have implicit faith in the supreme being who rules all destines deskines de stines and know that thia this unnecessarily harsh treatment will result in good to us 9 as so eo many circumstances of a IT like ilke nature have done dolie the time is drawing near when I 1 hope to be released and allowed to mingle with my friends but it if I 1 am not I 1 shall submit cheerfully for prison life or rather a clear consal nce contented mind and the knowledge that I 1 am trying to do as nearly right aa possible aree azree with me and I 1 have therefore with little exception enjoyed excellent health and think I 1 shall ishall bo be abie abia to endure until those who have the power eee bee lil fil to release me I 1 do not regret my imprisonment hero here though I 1 have many things to encounter th that t are not exactly ant yet a I 1 have gained an experience which will be beneficial to me in many ways none have as yet treat treated edme me wit with hopen open and avowed enmity v yet I 1 presume there is a class who cherish any amount of animosity but I 1 do not choose to lo let anything of thau that kind hind interfere wl with tb my conviction tion or of rig right h t very respectfully BELLE harbis HARRIS ab