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- GLC#
- GLC04194.21-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 August 1859
- Author/Creator
- Moore, John, 1826-1907
- Title
- to Mary Kelly
- Place Written
- Utah County, Utah
- Pagination
- 4 p. : envelope Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 17.9 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Describes the Mormon view of polygamy articulated by Orson Pratt and condemns polygamy. Asks why the national government permits "such a people to be not only tolerated but furnished with the means of growing rich beyond that of any portion of the people in the States?" Written at Camp Floyd.
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