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Jesse Nathaniel Smith letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312636]
Identifier: MSS SC 1436
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters and scratch notes. The letters are addressed to Jesse Nathaniel Smith from his relatives John Henry Smith and Joseph Fielding Smith. The authors discuss the present and possibly future social and political ramifications of the Edmunds Act (1882), and the Edmunds-Tucker Act (1887) on their lifestyles as polygamous Mormons.

Dates: 1884-1890
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Jesse Nathaniel Smith letters

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