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My Dear Friend: The Friendship And Correspondence Of Brigham Young And Thomas L. Kane, David J. Whittaker
My Dear Friend: The Friendship And Correspondence Of Brigham Young And Thomas L. Kane, David J. Whittaker
BYU Studies Quarterly
This article, originally a lecture given at Brigham Young University in 2009, was published as part of a special issue of BYU Studies featuring Thomas L. Kane. Although Kane was not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he was an advocate for the Mormon cause and a trusted friend of Mormon leaders for almost forty years. This article focuses on the correspondence between Kane and the Mormon prophet Brigham Young. There are about 125 known letters exchanged between Young and Kane, beginning the year they met in 1846 and extending to 1877, the year Young …
“The Scriptures Is A Fulfilling”: Sally Parker's Weave, Janiece L. Johnson
“The Scriptures Is A Fulfilling”: Sally Parker's Weave, Janiece L. Johnson
BYU Studies Quarterly
Sally Bradford Parker is not a name most LDS Church members recognize, but her faith, exemplified through the letter featured below, weaves an important fabric distinctive to early Latter-day Saint women. The limited number of known early Mormon women's voices, especially prior to the organization of the Relief Society in 1842, makes this document particularly valuable. As Sally shares her experience, she augments and supports the testimony of Hyrum Smith as a Book of Mormon witness and particularly the witness of another woman—the Prophet's mother, Lucy Mack Smith. When Sally arrived in Kirtland she was in awe of the many …