August 25, 1841

Nauvoo, Illinois
Joseph Smith responded to a letter from Horace R. Hotchkiss regarding the purchase of the land that Joseph called "a deathly sickly hole."
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 4:406-8
Joseph Smith History C1:1222–1223 
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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