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Description: Microfilm of 29 letters sent to or by Hosea Stout and his brother Allen Stout between 1836 and 1859. Recipients of letters from Hosea Stout include his wife Louisa Stout, his sisters Surmantha and Anna Stout, and his brother Allen Stout. Letters to Hosea Stout were written by Brigham Young, Allen Stout, Willard Richards, and Stout's cousins Daniel B. Capps in Grainger County, Tennessee, and Thomas Smith. There is also correspondence between Allen Stout and Benjamin Jones, William Fowler, John and Lydia Larkey, and John and Sarah Capps. The letters, which are not in chronological or alphabetical order on the reel, were sent from Illinois, Utah, Arkansas, California, Missouri, Tennessee, and Iowa. Some notable items include a letter from Hosea to his sister Anna in which he writes that he had failed in getting a school and that "it appears that misfortune comes upon me at every attempt to make an honest living" (Apr.5, 1832). A letter to Hosea from his cousin Daniel B. Capps asks for a description of the Mormons, as Capps had heard some disconcerting stories about them, although he concludes that "I do not want you to think this is a reprimand against you for joining their society, for it is not" (June 6, 1839). A series of letters to Louisa Stout from 1852-1853 describe Hosea's mission to Iron County, include portions of a journal he kept while traveling to Los Angeles and sailing to Monterey Harbor and ultimately San Francisco to arrange for passage to Hong Kong, and his dissatisfaction with the Mormon mission work in San Francisco ("We can do nothing here among the Chinese"). There is also a letter from Allen Stout informing Hosea of Louisa's death in childbirth while he was serving on a mission in Hong Kong (Apr.11, 1853), and a letter from Brigham Young to Stout while he was still in Hong Kong in which Young writes of troubles in Utah with "Walker and his band of Utes," who had murdered Brother Kill, John Dixon, John Quayle, and William Walton, terrorized the populations of Springfield and settlements in Sanpete County (including causing the abandonment of Salt and Summit Creeks) and fled into the mountains. Young also writes that many new Mormon immigrants have been arriving, of the Temple Block wall construction, and of Stout's family living with Allen Taylor after Louisa's death (Sep.30, 1853).

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