Journal, 1934

File — Box: 5, Volume: 20

Identifier: III

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

April 4
"Our baby is six weeks old today. I had to stay in bed for three weeks after coming home from the hospital. A nurse hired by the Metropolitan Life Insurance company used to come nearly every morning and give me a bath, but the bulk of the nursing of both me and the baby fell to Charles' lot."
In this era of depression in the early thirties, when the Relief Society of the Mormon Church visit Mary their message is:
May
"A much better remedy for such distress would be to teach people that it need not be endured, but rather find ways to abolish it."
July
"Ever since I read in the lives of Joseph Smith and Heber C. Kimball about their embracing the principle of polygamy I have felt terrible over it. I don't know why I should feel more so now than when I had to see mother going thru the trial of living it. Father and many seemingly concientious [sic] men wrote pages and pages of reasons why polygamy is the best form of marriage for the human race at all times."
Mary is genuinely obsessed with how her father's polygamy has ruined her life.

Dates

1934

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