, Letter, , Hancock Co., IL, to “the authorities of the Church of Latterday saint” (including JS), [, Hancock Co., IL], 22 July 1842; handwriting of ; two pages; Oliver H. Olney Papers, Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
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Speedily repent of your doings that [are?] w[rong] and Streighten Crooked and rough p[ath] And that without delay I shall move [aga]inst you threw the medium of the [press?] I know that I am not at this time a m[em]ber of the why because you fan[cy] I was a writing what you knew no[t] You demanded my writings I cal[l]ed th[em] my own and kept them You withd[raw]ed from me the hand of fellowshi[p] I then took my name from the Church All don[e] in good feeling But now a tho[rou]gh Reformation must be or I wi[ll] ◊◊◊◊ddle your doings on the house to[ps] I desire be<ing> of any party feeling either f[or] you or against you I move as I think [is?] a duty that involves on me for you[r] Good and the Go[o]d of my fellow man Now if you will be thourough in a [refor]mation and acknowlede your fa[u]lts to t[he] World threw the two periodicals of your place Cause. I have no more to say but be as ever a friend to you and my writing shall be in the dark If not speak of the Foibles of the Church of Latter day saints [p. [2]]