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March 2012
MormonListSixty-Nine
SMALL-FILE VERSION WITHOUT ILLUSTRATIONS
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Index numbers below refer to Items in this Catalog (rather than pages).
1
1820s-1830s items, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 16
Not in Flake, 5, 9, 10, 25
Only copy known,2,10,25
Items over $1,000, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 19, 20
Manuscript items, 14, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24
Association copies, 3, 4
Broadside, 25
Mormon parallels, 11, 16
Book of Mormon, 4, 11
Bridger, Fort, 10
California, 18
Council Bluffs, 14
Davis, Amos, 20
Dopp, Peter, 4
German title, 5
Hyde, Orson, 1
Kirtland Temple, 7
Map, 6
Martyrdom of Smiths, 2
Matthews, Robert ("Joshua the Jewish Minister"), 7
Methodist Episcopal, 7
Missions, 3
Nauvoo, Illinois 14, 19, 20
Ogden, Utah, 17
Palmyra, New York 6
Perfection, 16
Poetry, 18
Post card, 22
Pratt, Parley P., 11
Richards, Willard, 1
Shakers, 5, 16
Smith Family, 18, 19, 23, 24
Spaulding, Mrs. Solomon, 13
Tabernacle construction, 15
Tarble, Zechariah, 22
Townsend, Jesse, 7
Universalists, 2, 21
Utah War, 8, 12
Walker, William C., 20
Wayne County, NY, 6
Women, 9, 13, 14
Zion's Camp, 4
1
You [Willard Richards] have told me that you would sit in company with Mormon
Kings, before your death . . . that the Mormons would not only rule
Illinois, but in addition, the United States and North America
—yea, ultimately the whole world.
1Bennet, James Arlington. Front-page-center, open letter to Willard Richards in the New-York Daily Tribune for Tuesday, February 10, 1846 [V:261; Whole No. 1505].
Folio, [4] pp. Disbound; medium foxing. A few short, clean tears, without loss, to the upper margins. $250
Original to this newspaper, the erstwhile friend of the Mormons defends himself at the top of the center column, against Orson Hyde's recent complaints of Bennet's literary extravagance unfavorable to the Saints: "For the Tribune. The Mormons. (Copy of a letter from Gen. Arlington Bennet to Doctor Willard Richards, Nauvoo.) Arlington House, Feb. 9, 1846." (Page 1, column 4; 8 column inches of small type).
Think of it! New Yorkers and countless other Americans saw the name of Willard Richards displayed prominently in this important newspaper. And while the Saints were crossing the Mississippi to leave Nauvoo, people read of Richards' earlier claims that the Mormons would rule Illinois and all of North America. This is lively stuff, and in some parts, frankly shocking. For the full article with illustration and description by Brigham Young University Library, see:
When I refused to supply funds to publish the Map of Nauvoo . . . and at the same time announced to Joseph my disbelief of the divinity of his Mission, a furious, bombastic article was published in the Prophet's name, offering me gross insult and abuse. This I let pass . . .
What in the name of common sense have I to gain by the Mormons, that I should suffer myself to be used in any way by them? They have chosen me, not I them, and I have joined in the romance only because I am fond of fun.
Orson Hyde charges my letters with falsehood, and perhaps I ought to plead guilty to the venal charge, for I said, "That twelve more benevolent heads than those of the rulers could not be picked out of ten thousand men"—and at this the Warsaw Signal had a hearty laugh!
It is . . . feared that both Carthage and Warsaw have been burned by the Mormons
. . . The women and children in the latter place have been taken
to places of safety— [July 4, 1844 issue]
[illustration removed]
2Better Covenant (newspaper, St. Charles and Chicago, Illinois). More than 100 issues, for February 16, 1843 – December 17, 1846 [2:7 – 5:51; scattered issues lacking]. see condition notes, further below
overview: The apparentonly copies in existence, within the above period, of an 1840s Illinois religious newspaper, with at least five articles on the Mormons (2 substantial, 3 shorter; taken from other publications). Universalist periodical, with extensive general religious commentary and local reports of ministers, conferences, and doctrinal disputes. Anti-capital punishment.
Quarto, approx. 35 X 27 cm. 8 pages each, approximately 90 weekly issues + others; see below.* Some gaps in dating, but fairly comprehensive within the period covered. Most issues remain unopened and uncut (never cut open at the top folds for reading, and never trimmed). Once side-tied by an early owner (by piercing neatly at three points along the inside margin, for string tying in groups), without volume binding, glue, or damage to the back folds.
Contained in a nicely-fitting archival gray-board box with lid and fold-out side.
the collection: $1,600
Information regarding the Original Owner, Places of Publication, and Editors: Contemporary subscriber's designation on many issues for J.L. Clay, a well-to-do citizen of Galesburg, Illinois. The first four issues present here, through March 30, 1843 [2:7, 10, 12-13] were published at St. Charles, Illinois. All others were published at Chicago, making this a Chicago pre-fire imprint. The principal editors listed or implied were Seth Barnes (through August 29, 1844; 3:34); then Rev. William Rounseville (through May 29, 1845; 4:22); followed by a panel of contributing editors informally led by Cyrus B. Ingham. I record this bibliographic information here, since it is probably available nowhere else.
Condition Notes: The 1843-45 issues, while by no means pristine, are generally in passably decent shape. Fortunately, among those in better condition are the two issues containing the most interesting Mormon-related articles, itemized further below (from July 1844). There are occasional, more heavily-damaged issues within this period, but they are in the great minority.
{*The 1846 issues (additional to the approx. 90 issues counted above) are in generally very bad condition, many looking like the Dead Seas Scrolls before restoration. However, because of their extreme rarity, they are included here (at no charge) for sake of preservation of history, to whatever extent they can be salvaged.}
Unique: Each of these 100+ issues (except for five, or fewer) appears to be the only copy known, judging from OCLC, which finds only one issue at Andover-Harvard's Special Collections within the period present here [Dec. 12, 1844], and four unspecified 1845 issues at the American Antiquarian Society.
Mormon Articles: I located five Mormon-related articles, but those in the following two, consecutive issues (from the Chicago period, relating to the martyrdom of the Smiths; shown individually in the foreground of the image above) are of particular note, and each appears to be the only copyin existence:
—July 4, 1844 [III:27]. Edge-wear to the generous right-hand margin; some rumpling and some soil to the front page, not affecting the Mormon content, which fills more than a column of the inside back page 215 (12 column inches) ...
DREADFUL NEWS!
Attempt at Rescue!--Killing of Joe Smith—-Hiram Smith and William Richards, in the Carthage Jail.
At head of article: "We have just received the following account of a horrible tragedy, in an extra Chicago Daily Journal, it having been recieved [sic] at that office in an extra, Ottawa Free Trader, and Quincy Whig of June 28, 1844."
This early report is dramatic, unusual, and garbled; with fears for the safety of the non-Mormons.
—July 11, 1844 [III:28]. Very good but for wear to the right bottom corner (not affecting text). Again, on the inside-back pages. "From the Springfield Times. TO THE PEOPLE OF ILLINOIS." Highly interesting statement and official military orders, signed in type at the end by "THOMAS FORD, Governor and Commander-in-Chief." This fills a column and a half, on pp. 222-23 (17 column inches), and displays Ford's anger and frustration . . .
I desire to make a brief but true statement of the recent disgraceful affair at Carthage, in regard to the Smiths, so far as circumstances have come to my knowledge. The Smiths, Joseph and Hiram, have been assassinated in jail, by whom is not know [sic], but will be ascertained. I pledged myself for their safety, and upon the assurance of that pledge they surrendered as prisoners. The Mormons surrendered the public arms in their possession, and the Nauvoo Legion submitted to the command of Capt. Singleton of Brown County, deputed for that purpose by me. All these things were required to satisfy the old citizens of Hancock, that the Mormons were peaceably disposed; and to allay jealousy and excitement in their minds. It appears, however, that the compliance of the Mormons with every requisition made upon them, failed of that purpose. The pledge of security to the Smiths, was not given upon my individual responsibility. Before I gave it, I obtained a pledge of honor by a unanimous vote from the officers and men under my command, to sustain me in performing it. If the assassination of the Smiths was committed by any portion of these, they have added treachery to murder, and have done all they could do to disgrace the state, and sully the public honor. [p. 222]
The article continues at much greater length, in the same vein, ending with Ford's general orders for a twelve-day campaign of volunteers to sustain the peace, dated Quincy, June 29, 1844.
—Additional Mormon-related articles appear in the issues for March 23, 1843, Sept. 26, 1844, and October 16, 1845 [2:12, 3:38, 4:42], on Porter Rockwell captured; slow progress toward trying murderers of the Smiths; and the Mormon War ended (9½ column inches total, in all).
Eddy, Universalism in America (Vol. 2, Bibliography entry 2203); OCLC Accession No. 181949000.
Addison Pratt's Bible in 1840s Tahiti, San Francisco & Utah
. . . with our toes out of our shoes, and our knees and elbows out of our clothes,
liveing a part of our time on cocoanuts and raw fish and sleeping on the
ground, for the sake of obeying the Savior's commands and preaching
the gospel to the natives of the South Sea Islands [published journal]
[illustration removed]
3Bible. English. 1843. Authorized. The Holy Bible, Containing the New and Old Testaments: Translated Out of the Original Tongues, and with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. New-York: Printed by D. Fanshaw. For the American Bible Society. {Nonpareil 12 mo.}, 1843.
18½ cm. 669 pp. + [2] ff. between the testaments for entering family events (Marriages, Births, Deaths). Original calf with considerable wear and significant dampstaining. The binding remains quite strong, and the paper is not brittle. A very old string loop (easily removed) works as a bookmark, and is stated, by the last family owner, to have been present on the book throughout her period of memory. $3,500
Signed and inscribed on the title page by the first LDS missionary to preach in a foreign tongue: "Addison Pratts Book. Tabuai, Society Islands, South Pacific Ocean, Novr 13.th 1845." Signed twice more with many additional words in Pratt's distinctive hand, in the form of family birth and marriage entries on the leaves provided between the Old and New Testaments. Numerous discreet penciled notations appear in margins and at the end, presumably by Pratt. On back flyleaves are faint astronomical notations, including the following, quoted from Thomas Dick:
Scheiner who was among the first that observed these spots remarks that "from the year 1611= to 1629= he never found the sun quite clear of spots except a few days in December 1624, at other times he was able to count 20= 30= & even 50 spots upon the sun at the same time –
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Dick's Xxxx Celestial Scenery= page 202=
Additional family birth, marriage and death entries continue in various inks and hands of descendants through June 2010.
:: Together with:: a handwritten statement of provenance detailing each owner in direct succession to the fourth-great granddaughter from whom I obtained this volume in November 2011.
A well-traveled book, subject to tedious ocean voyages halfway around the world, a "canoe" trip from which Pratt had to bail water continuously, and various adventures in the West –including Pratt's stint in San Francisco at the time of the discovery of gold at nearby Sutter's Fort, and the eventual overland trip to Salt Lake City. Pratt would return to the Pacific on a second mission in the 1850s, when he may well have taken this volume along once again, in consideration of his numerous notations written alongside scripture passages. From this book, Pratt occasionally preached to antagonistic English Protestant missionaries in Tahiti. It was the Bible, rather than the Book of Mormon or Doctrine and Covenants, which Pratt used almost exclusively in his extensive preaching and scripture study during that period, as is evident from his published journal (referenced below), 196, 240, and elsewhere; also see his lengthy letter to his wife, published in the Times and Seasons 6 (May 1, 1845), pp. 882-85.
Of further interest, surely, is the fact that this was a Bible used in pre-Territorial Utah, at the Pratt residence (on the site of the present Salt Lake Public Library). When Addison arrived home from San Francisco on September 28, 1848, his children barely knew him. They had been separated for more than five years. This volume would have been in Pratt's wagon, of course, perhaps in the chest of trinkets from Tahiti with which Pratt gradually won the confidence of his youngest child, who observed to her playmates ". . . how droll it seems to have a father and not know him." For his part, Pratt confessed in his journal that he did not recognized her either, "and any other child of her age would have answered her place just as well, except a singularity that she has in her eyes." (published journal, p. 360)
AddisonPratt (1802-72) spent months living in Hawaii as a young man after jumping ship from a whaling voyage. After converting to Mormonism, he convinced Joseph Smith to send him to the South Seas, where he became the first Latter-day Saint missionary to preach in a non-English language. Much has been written by and about Pratt. For an easy overview, see:
For Pratt's extensive journals, detailing the exotic experiences at which this Bible was present, see The Journals of Addison Pratt: Being a Narrative of Yankee Whaling in the Eighteen Twenties, A Mormon Mission to the Society Islands, and of Early California and Utah in the Eighteen Forties and Fifties. Edited with Introduction and Notes by S. George Ellsworth. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1990 (606 pages). From coconut-milk sacrament services to interviews with former cannibals-become Latter-day Saints, Pratt's adventures at the time he used this book in Tahiti will not disappoint, followed by acquaintance with Sam Brannan in California and onward in a wagon to eventual reunion with his family. The following excerpts from his published journal add a more personal touch to the poignant volume now at hand, as will become evident below . . .
[November] 10th [1845]. This is my wife's birthday. My Dearest Earthly Friend! Could I but know your situation this day!! What a burden it would remoove from my mind. How little did I think when I was parting with you and
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entries by Addison Pratt in his Bible which he signed November 13, 1845
our dear children upon the banks of the Mississippi, that after I left my native country two long years must roll away and not one word from you. And the reports I hear respecting the troubles and afflictions that are heaped upon the church by mobs and marauders causes my heart to ache, and you I expect are in the midst. And may the Lord's arm be extended to save you all from death and destruction, may his spirit rest upon you, to deliver you from sin and temptation, from penury and want. And as another cold winter is pressing upon you, may you all be provided with the necessaries and comforts of life. May there rise up friends on your right hand and on your left to assist and comfort, both in temporal and in spiritual things. Till I shall be permitted to return to you in safety shall be my daily prayers. [published journal referenced above, p. 251]
4th Decr. [1845] Arrived the schooner Artarevedre. This has been a day long to be remembered by me. . . . Her boat soon landed with my friend Capt. Sajat. He came up to me and said, "I have now come to fulfill the promise I made you when I was here, that I would be the first man that would bring you letters from your wife!!' and then pulled out 2 (besides others) that had the well known handwriting of my wife on them. It is useless for me to try to describe my feelings, for they are known to those only who are placed in similar circumstances. These were the first letters that had been received from America. They confirmed the deaths of Brs. Hiram and Joseph, and much other news . . . [published journal, pp. 251, 253]
"W
e have withstood the frowns of poverty," Pratt reflected one year later, as he prepared to take leave of Tahiti at last,