Letter to N. C. Saxton, 12 February 1833

  • To N C Sexton [Saxton] Rochester

    Dear sir

    I was somewhat disappointed on receiv ing my paper with only a part of my  letter inserted in that it. The letter which I  wrote you for publication I wrote by the [p. 27]

In January 1833 at Kirtland, Ohio, JS wrote a substantive letter for publication outlining the early church’s message to the world, sending it to N. C. Saxton, editor and proprietor of the American Revivalist, and Rochester Observer, at Rochester, New York. Saxton, however, chose to print only the concluding portion of the letter in the Revivalist. Disappointed that his entire letter had not been published, JS responded with this note.

Frederick G. Williams transcribed this letter into JS’s Letterbook 1.

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Editorial Title
Letter to N. C. Saxton, 12 February 1833
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