Dear Ellen : two Mormon women and their letters / by S. George Ellsworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellsworth, S. George (Samuel George), 1916-1997

Contributor:

Clawson, Ellen Spencer, 1832-1896

McGary, Ellen Pratt, 1832-1895

Tanner Trust Fund, publisher.

Series:

Utah, the Mormons, and the West ; no. 3.

Utah, the Mormons, and the West ; no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clawson, Ellen Spencer, 1832-1896--Correspondence.

Clawson, Ellen Spencer.

McGary, Ellen Pratt, 1832-1895--Correspondence.

McGary, Ellen Pratt.

Latter Day Saint women--United States--Correspondence.

Latter Day Saint women.

Latter Day Saints--Utah--Salt Lake City--Social life and customs--19th century.

Latter Day Saints.

Latter Day Saints--California--San Bernardino--Social life and customs--19th century.

Polygamy--Social aspects--Utah--19th century.

Polygamy.

Latter Day Saint families--United States--Social life and customs--19th century.

Latter Day Saint families.

Women in Latter Day Saint churches--United States--Social conditions--19th century.

Women in Latter Day Saint churches.

Latter Day Saint churches--History--19th century.

Latter Day Saint churches.

Latter Day Saint churches--Doctrines--Social aspects--19th century.

Latter Day Saint missionaries--History--19th century.

Latter Day Saint missionaries.

Clawson, Ellen Spencer, 1832-1896.

McGary, Ellen Pratt, 1832-1895.

Latter Day Saints--Social life and customs.

California--San Bernardino.

United States.

Utah.

Utah--Salt Lake City.

Genre:

History

Personal correspondence

Letters -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

x, 92 pages ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Two Mormon women and their letters

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : Tanner Trust Fund, University of Utah Library, [1974]

Summary:

Here are letters from the 1850s written by two girls named Ellen: Ellen Curtis Spencer (1832-96), who married Hiram B. Clawson of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, and Ellen Sophronia Pratt (1832-95), who married William McGary of San Bernardino, California. Both were intelligent and talented daughters of prominent Mormons of their day. When the correspondence opens, the girls are twenty-four years old and have not seen one another for six years. They have been intimates since their days at Nauvoo, an early Mormon gathering place on the Mississippi River. These letters vividly open up two years of their lifelong association and reveal interesting aspects of Mormon affairs in Salt Lake City and San Bernardino during the eventful years of 1856 and 1857.

Notes:

Includes correspondence between Ellen Pratt McGary and Ellen Spencer Clawson, May 1856-Aug. 1857.

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

979069