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[Typed transcript and manuscript copies of unsigned Letter to the Editor of the Warsaw Signal]

Published / Created:
1844 February 15
Call Number:
WA MSS S-11
Image Count:
17
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Description:
Typed transcript bound with originals.
Subject (Geographic):
Hancock County (Ill.)
Subject (Name):
Sharp & Gamble (Firm : Warsaw, Ill.)
Subject (Topic):
Anti-Mormonism and Mormons--Illinois
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > [Typed transcript and manuscript copies of unsigned Letter to the Editor of the Warsaw Signal]

2.
Mormon letters

Creator:
Pickel, Leonard
Published / Created:
1841-1844
Call Number:
WA MSS 383
Image Count:
63
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
The letters from friends in Nauvoo to Leonard Pickel describe the journey from Pennsylvania to Nauvoo, economic conditions, the community's growth, the arrest and death of Joseph Smith, and the departure of Sidney Rigdon. There are also letters from ...
Description:
Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Subject (Geographic):
Nauvoo (Ill.)
Subject (Name):
Davis, Elisha H., Pickel, Leonard, Rigdon, Sidney, 1793-1876, Smith, Hyrum, 1800-1844, and Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844
Subject (Topic):
Mormons--Illinois
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mormon letters

3.
Joe and Hiran [!] Smith are dead!

Published / Created:
1844
Call Number:
BrSides Zc61 I3 844qu
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Quincy daily herald.
Description:
At head of title: Quincy herald-extra. Quincy, Friday morning, 5 o'clock.
Subject (Name):
Illinois. Governor (1842-1846 : Ford) To the people of the state of Illinois, Smith, Hyrum, 1800-1844, and Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844
Subject (Topic):
Mormons--Illinois
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Joe and Hiran [!] Smith are dead!

4.
Brattle family correspondence, 1834-1866.

Creator:
Brattle family
Published / Created:
1834-44
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2117 B737
Image Count:
20
Abstract:
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 ...
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 kille...
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
Subject (Topic):
Mormons--Illinois
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Brattle family correspondence, 1834-1866.