Posing now as a sympathizer and probable convert, Galland wrote to the prophet in Liberty jail. Impressed, as always, by a facile tongue, Joseph replied with enthusiasm to Galland’s commiseration and unctuous praise, and expressed his interest in the tract.J Thus it came about that in the first weeks of their arrival *History of Lee Co., Iowa (1879), pp. 164-5. t Thomas Ford:History of Illinois (Chicago, 1854), p. 406. t See his letter to Galland,Times and Seasons, Vol. I (1840), p. 52. in Illinois the Mormons began not only to be entangled in a net of fraudulent land deals but also to be
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