Mormon letters

Description

Title: Mormon letters
Creator: Pickel, Leonard
Contributor: Davis, Elisha H.
Pickel, Leonard
Rigdon, Sidney, 1793-1876
Smith, Hyrum, 1800-1844
Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844
Published / Created: 1841-1844
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 Elisha Davis, a Mormon missionary.
Description: Gift of William Robertson Coe.
Leonard Pickel, a cooper of Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, became a Mormon and considered moving to Nauvoo.
Extent: 24 p.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: text
Genre: Manuscipts
Typescripts
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Nauvoo (Ill.)
Subject (Name): Davis, Elisha H.
Pickel, Leonard
Rigdon, Sidney, 1793-1876
Smith, Hyrum, 1800-1844
Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844
Subject (Topic): Mormons--Illinois

Access: Public
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Citation: Leonard Pickel Mormon Letters. Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Withington, M. C. Catalogue of Western Americana Manuscripts 383.