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Joseph Smith, Jr. letter to Oliver Granger

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Description: Letter from Joseph Smith to Oliver Granger written from Nauvoo, Illinois. Smith writes of not receiving Granger's previous letters and that their content may have changed the "proceeding of [the] last Conference." He writes that they thought it "advisable to appoint someone to preside in Kirtland," and asks Granger to join Brother Babbit in the work. Smith asserts his hopes for Granger's welfare and "prosperity for the Saints in Kirtland." He also writes of Granger's securing of the "keys of the Lords House" and that he might pay a visit after the "New York debt is settled." The attribution of the signature to Joseph Smith is questionable, and the letter may have been written by Smith's secretary Robert B. Thompson.
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Production date: 1841, January 26.
Call number: mssHM 28168
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Oliver Granger letter to Joseph Smith

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Letter from Oliver Granger to Joseph Smith asking Smith to pay Samuel Clark $101 in land and cash, to go toward an obligation against Granger for land purchased to settle a debt against Smith in favor of Hitchcock and Sons of New York.

mssHM 28171

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Receipt for $2.00 paid by Hiram Kimball for two notes given to Oliver Granger by Joseph Smith, a bankrupt

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Receipt noting Hiram Kimball as the highest bidder on two notes, including one to Oliver Granger, from Joseph Smith, "a bankrupt." Signed by Joel Catlin.

mssHM 28172

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Deed for a lot in Nauvoo to Lydia Dibble Granger

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Deed for a half of lot number one in Block 161 of the City of Nauvoo, given to Lydia Dibble Granger. Signed by Joseph Smith. Printed form, filled in.

mssHM 28170

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Horace Bell letters to Lewis C. Granger and Belle Granger Ekman

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Six letters sent by Horace Bell in Los Angeles to Lewis C. Granger and his sister Belle Granger Ekman between 1870 and 1893. In the first letter to Granger, dated 1870, Bell writes of his family life since 1862, of a lack of heirs and titles in the Gray estate and of his plans to "let the matter go to the state." In 1872 he writes of deciding not to sell his house for his wife's sake and of his son's education; in 1882 he notes "I am grieved at your silence;" in 1885 he writes of being busy in the Superior Court and of a land matter relating to Granger; and in 1887 writes that the "world of rascality here has combined under the leadership of G. Wiley Wells employed by E.J. Baldwin, to brake [sic] down my paper...and disgrace me." He further notes that "this arrant [sic] scoundrel" Wells had gone to Oroville, where Granger lived, and asks Granger to watch him and to send Bell his own recollection's of Bell's time in Oroville between 1852 and 1858. Included is a newspaper clipping with a derogatory story about Bell, which calls him a "drunken debauchee, [who] frequently found his way into the chain-gang," among other things. The final letter was sent to Belle Granger Ekman in 1893, and in it Bell thanks her for sending him a book on the Granger family, and advises her to "take the original biographical sketch and have it published in a neat centerable book."

mssHM 30938-30943

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Joseph Walker McCorkle letter to Lewis Granger, Washington, D.C

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This letter refers to the land claims of the Native Americans in Southern California, and McCorkle writes to Granger about the necessary forms and procedures to pursue such cases.

mssHM 62564

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Father Joseph O'Reilly letter to Olive Percival

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In this letter, the current pastor of Mission San Juan Bautista, regretfully informs Miss Percival that Father Closa [Father Ricardo Valentin Closa, 1841-1916] died three years earlier and that he is now the current pastor. He writes that the sundial is still "recording time in the garden."

mssHM 16374

Joseph Smith, Jr. letter to Oliver Granger

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