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End of the world

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Isaac H. Bishop letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230343821]
Identifier: MSS 116
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten letter and a typescript of the item. The letter is addressed to "Dear Brother and Sister" and dated 3 May 1849. Bishop writes about family matters and quotes from the second book of Esdras dealing with the end of the world.

Dates: 1849 May 3
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Isaac H. Bishop letter

Leonard Smith Conger letter to Levi Conger

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230242122]
Identifier: MSS SC 527
Scope and Contents

ALS. The letter includes Conger's testimony of the Latter-day Saint Church and his belief that destruction and famine will come upon the United States within five years and safety will only be found in Zion (Utah).

Dates: 1861
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Leonard Smith Conger letter to Levi Conger

Wilford Woodruff diary excerpt

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348218]
Identifier: MSS 1342
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary excerpt that includes a copy of an unattributed vision or a dream which Woodruff had obtained. The vision claimed to foresee of the last days in which a great loss of life and a great destruction would befall the the cities of the eastern United States. Photocopy includes entries from June 14 to 22, 1878.

Dates: 1877
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Wilford Woodruff diary excerpt

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