Correspondence
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hancock County (Ill.) Circuit Court legal documents
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1443
Scope and Contents
Collection contains about 750 documents relating to some 250 actions arising in justice of the peace or circuit courts in Hancock County, Illinois. Also includes a letter from David Martin concerning part of the collection and indexes to court cases involving Joseph Smith Jr. and the autographs of those who martyred Smith.
Dates:
1839-1860
Duane E. Jeffery collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8432
Scope and Contents
Materials consist of items collected by Duane E. Jeffery. Includes original and photocopied correspondence between A.W. Babbit and the high council of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints about Babbitt's church membership and conduct (1851), a photocopy of an excerpt of a manuscript titled Book of Sundays by J.P. Greene (1837), and a legal divorce document for Leah Frances Clawson (1848). There are also postcards that depict scenes from The Book of Mormon and other Church history...
Dates:
1837-1968
Elisha Whittney letter
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237767]
Identifier: MSS SC 743
Scope and Contents
Letter-press copy of a handwritten and signed letter, dated 3 Feb. 1857 and addressed to Julia Ann Babbitt. Whittney writes about the estate of Julia's husband, Almon W. Babbitt, who had been killed by Indians in 1856.
Dates:
1857