4. Joseph Smith, attributed, "Letter of Appointment"

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Description

Title
4. Joseph Smith, attributed, "Letter of Appointment"
Published / Created
1844 June 18
Description
Letter ostensibly written by Joseph Smith to James Jesse Strang from Nauvoo, Illinois, and published by Strang in the Voree Herald, January 1846, as well as in his The Diamond: Being the Law of Prophetic Succession and a Defense of the Calling of James J. Strang as Successor to Joseph Smith (Voree, Wisconsin, 1848) and The Prophetic Controversy: A Letter from James Strang to Mrs. Corey (St. James, Michigan, 1854). Accompanied by an unsigned note from a child of Strang. Photostat copy.
Provenance
James Jesse Strang and Church of Jesus Christ (Strangites) Collection series, gift of William Robertson Coe, 1951. Charles Jesse Strang Papers, Milo Quiafe Papers, and Visual Resources series, gift of Charles Eberstadt, 1956., Charles Jesse Strang, a son of James Jesse Strang, compiled most of the material in this collection, which after his death in 1916 passed to his brother Clement James Strang, who then gave the material to Milo Milton Quaife. Quaife drew on the material for his book, Kingdom of St. James (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1930). Quaife sold the material, probably between 1948 and 1951, to the bookseller Edward Eberstadt & Sons, which hired Dale L. Morgan to describe it in an item-level catalog, The Strang Manuscripts, in 1951. The bookseller then sold the material to William Robertson Coe, who gave it to Yale University in 1951. Charles Eberstadt from the firm then gave the remaining material in this collection as a gift in 1956., Gift of William Roberston Coe, 1951.
Language
English

Item Location

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
WA MSS 447
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Container / Volume
Box 1, folder 4

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Citation
James Jesse Strang Collection. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
3139851
Object ID (OID)
2025934

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