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Letter from Nauvoo shortly after Joseph Smith's murder...
Letter from Nauvoo shortly after Joseph Smith's murder...
Item # 684894
August 24, 1844
NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE, Aug. 24, 1844
* Mormons - Mormonism
* Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois
* Post Joseph Smith death
Page 3 has an article: "Affairs at Nauvoo--Politics, etc." This is a letter datelined "Nauvoo, Illinois, Aug. 3, 1844". Keep in mind that Joseph Smith was assassinated June 27, 1844.
It begins: "I write you from the 'City of the Saints' and from the Head-Quarters of the late Mormon Prophet, Joe Smith. You must know that Joe was a tavern-keeper as well as a Prophet..." with much more.
Eight pages, nice condition.
AI notes: In 1844, Nauvoo, Illinois, stood as the vibrant center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints under the leadership of Joseph Smith, who had transformed the city into a powerful religious and political hub with its own charter, militia (the Nauvoo Legion), and a grand temple nearing completion. That year marked both the peak of Nauvoo’s influence and the beginning of its unraveling. Tensions with non-Mormon residents and dissenters within the church intensified, particularly after Smith, who had controversially introduced the practice of plural marriage to select followers, ordered the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor, a newspaper critical of him. This act, seen as an attack on free press, led to his arrest. On June 27, 1844, while jailed in Carthage, Joseph and his brother Hyrum Smith were killed by a mob, sparking a leadership crisis and a wave of hostility that would ultimately force the Latter-day Saints to abandon Nauvoo and begin their westward migration to Utah.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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