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Richard Drew letter
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2174
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten and signed letter addressed to Philip Wilson. The item deals with questions on the successor of the Mormon Church after the death of Joseph Smith (1805-1844) from the position of the Strangites.
Dates:
1983
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Hancock County records
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 212
Scope and Contents
Film contains 22 items, including three collections: Nauvoo court records; Eudocia Marsh's Mormons in Hancock County : a Reminiscence; and the Strangite Papers, 1851-1963.
Dates:
1840-1963
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Smith letter
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2576
Scope and Contents
Photographs of a handwritten and signed letter dated 18 June 1844 and addressed to James Strang. Smith responds to Strang's request to establish a stake of the Mormon Church in Wisconsin. Smith said that the inquiry was received negatively by the leaders of the Mormon Church, but later it was accepted more positiviely. Smith then records a vision he had in which he was carried to the Kingdom of Heaven by angels and spoke with God about the request. God told Smith that the stake was to be...
Dates:
1844 June 18
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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