Item Detail
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MSS SC 1436
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Jesse Nathaniel Smith letters
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Smith, Jesse Nathaniel
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1884-1890
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Handwritten letters and scratch notes. The letters are addressed to Jesse N. Smith from his relatives John Henry Smith and Joseph Fielding Smith. The authors discuss the present and possibly future social and political ramifications of the Edmunds Act (1882), and the Edmunds-Tucker Act (1887) on their lifestyles as polygamous Mormons.