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Subject: Re: Help indentifying copies?
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:26:22 -0700
Anne Lamb wrote:
>
> Well, here I am asking for help in identifying something, when I know
> perfectly well that I should have marked it at the time that I copied it
> in SLC.. Mea culpa.
>
> It is a group of printed pages which appear to have been photocopies
> themselves from a previous book and bound at the top of the pages (two
> are printed side by side) with a comb binding. One page has stamp
> "Historian's Office Library". I believe I got them in the Library of the
> Church Archives in the Church Office Building rather than at the FHL.
> Some have handwritten dates on them.
>
> Many of the pages have the headings EDITORIAL or FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE
> and they are in chronological order, reporting events of the various
> pioneer companies and other church events. One page (72) has a heading
> about 1/4 of the way down "The Latter Day Saints' Millennial Star" and
> Saturday February 3, 1855. Therefore I think this is a reproduction of
> the Millennial Star.
>
> But what is the proper title? Can anyone help?
> (And I promise I will never again leave a library without writing the
> source of my copies on them. Really.)
>
> Anne
Dear Anne,
That is the Millenial Star. It sounds identical to the bound copies we
have at BYU. Have used 1855 as I received a tip off about a letter
there concerning my family. The MS contained reports from missionaries
all over the world and even some correspondence from the states the
other direction.
The letter I have located is from a convert from England, James Farmer,
writing back to his friend [My 3gg father James Mellor] telling him how
wonderful Utah is and how they have some land and animals and always
enough to eat. He encourages James Mellor to come and bring his family.
The following year James was on the Horizon and in the Martin Handcart
Company.
Laurie Werner Castillo
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