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2955
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English
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A Little Known Account of the Murders of Joseph and Hyrum Smith
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BYU Studies
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Spring 1974
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14
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389-92
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"A little known contemporary account of the circumstances surrounding the death of Joseph and Hyrum Smith is contained in the following letter which was written by Mr. H. H. Bliss, a resident of La Harpe, Illinois, on the day following the murders at Carthage Jail. Bliss, whose name was included in an 1859 La Harpe business directory with the word "furniture" after it, was the town's postmaster from 1856 to 1865. The letter was written to reassure his family back East that the situation in Hancock County was not as dangerous as published accounts might indicate. It was addressed to Mr. Franklin Bliss, Springfield, Massachusetts, and was mailed from La Harpe on 8 July 1844." [Publisher's abstract]
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