William Wines Phelps letter to Sally Phelps

Digital Record

Identifier: VMSS810_S1_F1_O1_I11

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Dates

Creation: 1841 June 21

Extent

3 p.

Additional Description

General Note

Letter to Sally Phelps, Kirtland Mills, Lake County, Ohio, from William Wines Phelps, Homer, New York, dated June 21, 1841. States that he arrived at his father's family's house--"The seed of Mormonism, sown ten years ago... had gone out." After preaching to his family for four days, he baptized his father, mother, and one brother; tells about other news and people from home.

General Note

Holograph, signed.

Additional File Versions

Image of William Wines Phelps letter to Sally Phelps

Subjects

Genre / Form

Letters

Linked Records

William Wines Phelps papers | William Wines Phelps correspondence and other material, 1835-1865 | William Wines Phelps letter to Sally Phelps, 1841 June 21

Repository Details

Repository Details

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