6 ALS, one of them by James W. Brattle to his brother Charles dated July 5, 1844, providing an eyewitness account of the events leading to the death of Joseph Smith and the reaction of Mormons to the murder. Brattle describes Smith's crackdown on the Nauvoo Expositor, his incarceration in Carthage, and the attack and murder on June 27, 1844. Brattle records the shock of the Mormons who had believed that Smith could not be killed by bullets, and states that Governor Ford could have handled the crisis better. Four other letters by members of the Brattle family, based in Massachusetts and Connecticut, discuss family news, including occasional references to James and his interactions with Mormons in Illinois. One letter from James B. Burbank,James Brattle's nephew, is written from Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, dated April 12, 1866, and mentions a threat telegraphed by General Tecumseh Sherman to Brigham Young.
Alternative Title:
[Letters amongst the Brattle family, 1834-1844]
Description:
James Brattle was a member of the Illinois Grays Militia, which was ordered to protect Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, while Smith was awaiting trial in Carthage, and was present when Smith and his brother Hyrum were attacked and killed. Brattle then rode Smith's horse to the Mormon settlement at Nauvoo, to give them the news of Smith's death.
Subject (Geographic):
Nauvoo (Ill.)
Subject (Name):
Brattle family, Brattle, James W, Burbank, James W, Ford, Thomas,--1800-1850, Smith, Hyrum,--1800-1844--Assassination, Smith, Joseph,--1805-1844--Assassination, and Young, Brigham,--1801-1877
Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780
Published / Created:
1778
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 562
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Manuscript in an unidentified hand, signed with the initials "D. T. B. B.", of a Spanish translation of this epistolary novel by Leprince de Beaumont.
Alternative Title:
Lettres de Madame Du Montier. Spanish
Description:
Binding: full marbled calf; marbled endpapers., Former call number: Uncat MSS 699., and Madame Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780) was a French novelist, best-known for her version of Beauty and the beast.
Subject (Name):
Leprince de Beaumont,--Madame--(Jeanne-Marie),--1711-1780
Subject (Topic):
French fiction--18th century, French literature--Translations into Spanish, Spanish literature--18th century, and Spanish literature--Translations into French
Manuscript and printed items, tipped into album in approximate chronological order. Includes letters to Eardley-Wilmot from Sir Brook Watson, 1st bart. (1735-1807), George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st marquis of Buckingham (1753-1813), John Moore, abp. of Canterbury (1730-1805), the Bishop of Leon, Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, lady Crewe (d.1818), Mark Noble (1754-1827), Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 1st bart. (1748-1825), Hannah More (1745-1833), John Milner (1752-1826), John Wills (1741-1806), John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823), Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), William Eden, 1st baron Auckland (1744-1814); other manuscript items include financial records, records of council proceedings, and a copy of a letter from Pope Pius VI to the Bishop of Leon.The printed items include newspaper clippings, lists of subscribers, minutes and resolutions from committee meetings, a printed document in Latin issued by Pope Pius VI praising "even non-catholic princes and people" who give asylum to French clergy, and an unrecorded separate printing of the "Case of the Suffering Clergy of France" by Edmund Burke (1729-1797), which first appeared in the Evening Mail, 1792 Sep 19 (see Todd, Bibl. Edmund Burke, No. 60). Some letters praise Eardley-Wilmot for his charitable pursuit, and others criticize him as a papal sympathizer. Table of contents outlines dates and names of correspondents in page order.
Alternative Title:
[Letter : Mr. Poulter to e Bishop of St. Pol. de Leon]
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Foreign public opinion, British, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Refugees--Sources, and Great Britain--Foreign relations--France--1789-1815
Subject (Name):
Eardley-Wilmot, John,--1750-1815
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism--Great Britain, Anticlericalism--France, and Clergy--France--Political activity--History
Manuscript and printed items, tipped into album in approximate chronological order. Includes letters to Eardley-Wilmot from Sir Brook Watson, 1st bart. (1735-1807), George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st marquis of Buckingham (1753-1813), John Moore, abp. of Canterbury (1730-1805), the Bishop of Leon, Frances Anne (Greville) Crewe, lady Crewe (d.1818), Mark Noble (1754-1827), Sir John Coxe Hippisley, 1st bart. (1748-1825), Hannah More (1745-1833), John Milner (1752-1826), John Wills (1741-1806), John Julius Angerstein (1735-1823), Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd earl of Liverpool (1770-1828), William Eden, 1st baron Auckland (1744-1814); other manuscript items include financial records, records of council proceedings, and a copy of a letter from Pope Pius VI to the Bishop of Leon.The printed items include newspaper clippings, lists of subscribers, minutes and resolutions from committee meetings, a printed document in Latin issued by Pope Pius VI praising "even non-catholic princes and people" who give asylum to French clergy, and an unrecorded separate printing of the "Case of the Suffering Clergy of France" by Edmund Burke (1729-1797), which first appeared in the Evening Mail, 1792 Sep 19 (see Todd, Bibl. Edmund Burke, No. 60). Some letters praise Eardley-Wilmot for his charitable pursuit, and others criticize him as a papal sympathizer. Table of contents outlines dates and names of correspondents in page order.
Alternative Title:
[To the editor of the True Briton ... [by] a true Royalist]
Subject (Geographic):
France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Foreign public opinion, British, France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Refugees--Sources, and Great Britain--Foreign relations--France--1789-1815
Subject (Name):
Eardley-Wilmot, John,--1750-1815
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Catholicism--Great Britain, Anticlericalism--France, and Clergy--France--Political activity--History
