On 3 April 1843, wrote from , Indiana, to JS in , Illinois, to follow up on another letter Bias had written nearly a month earlier proposing a sale of arms. That letter, dated 7 March 1843, discussed Bias’s desire to sell fifty stands of weapons to the members of a militia unit he proposed to organize in Nauvoo. Bias neglected to pay the postage on his previous letter and was therefore concerned that JS had not received it. He paid the postage on this letter, which likely arrived in Nauvoo within one or two weeks. It appears that it was received by 30 April 1843, a date that appears in an endorsement that made on the letter. Though JS had refused the sale of the weapons in a draft response to Bias’s first letter, it is not known whether a response to this 3 April 1843 letter was ever written.