A painted dramatization of the 1842 confrontation in which Joseph Smith attempts to justify his plural marriage proposal to 19-year-old Nancy Rigdon, daughter of First Presidency counselor Sidney Rigdon. After Nancy refused Smith's proposal, he gave her the now-famous 'Happiness Letter,' arguing that 'That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another.' Sidney Rigdon was outraged when the letter surfaced, and the episode became one of the earliest public scandals of Nauvoo-era polygamy.
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