William W. Phelps, Letter to Sally Phelps, April 1836
William W. Phelps
W. W. Phelps’s letter from Kirtland to his wife Sally in Liberty, Missouri, April 1836. It describes the temple dedication of 27 March and reports that on 3 April Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery learned in a manifestation that the great and terrible day of the Lord named by Malachi was near, even at the doors.
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Edition and location
William W. Phelps, holograph letter to Sally Phelps, Liberty, Clay County, Missouri, from Kirtland, Ohio, April 1836, signed “WW Phelps”; four pages, headed “Letter 27” and paginated 187 on the first page. L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Vault MSS 810, William Wines Phelps papers, series 1, item 10; digital images in BYU’s CONTENTdm collection SCMisc (record 54671; page 3 is record 54669). Page 3, from “On Sunday, April 3” through “six years old this day:”. Transcribed from the page image. Spelling, capitalization and punctuation as written; line ends joined; “&” kept. Square brackets enclose letters supplied where the paper is torn or stained (“Josep[h],” “Lo[rd],” “M[a]lichi”); “[…]” marks a word lost at the torn right edge.
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