Identifier |
genteel_gentile |
Title |
The Genteel Gentile, Letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857 - 1858 |
Creator |
Canning, Ray R.; Beeton, Beverly |
Subject |
Utah Expedition, 1857-1858; Frontier and pioneer life; Polygamy; Letters |
Subject Local |
Cumming, Elizabeth Wells Randall, 1811-1867; Utah War, 1857-58 |
Description |
Letters Elizabeth Cumming wrote to her sisters-in-law describing her adventures accompanying the Utah Expedition from the Missouri River to the Salt Lake Valley in 1857-58. |
Publisher |
Tanner Trust Fund University of Utah Library, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
Contributors |
Series Editors: Cooley, Everett L.; Madsen, Brigham D.; Tyler, S. Lyman; Ward, Margery W. |
Date |
1977 |
Type |
Text |
Format |
image/png |
Format Creation |
Digital images scanned at 8-bit grayscale on an Epson Expression 836XL flatbed scanner, and saved as uncompressed TIFF files at 1300 x 1000 pixels resolution. Display GIF files generated In PhotoShop. |
Source |
The genteel gentile : letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857-1858 |
Language |
eng |
Relation |
Is Part Of: Utah, the Mormons, and the West, no. 8 |
Coverage |
1857-1858 |
Rights Management |
University of Utah, Copyright 2001 |
Holding Institution |
J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah. |
Source Physical Dimensions |
25.5 cm x 20.5 cm |
Source Characteristics |
Printed Hard Cover Book |
Scanning Device |
Epson Expression 836XL Flatbed Scanner |
Resolution |
TIFF: Vertical: 740 x 1000 pixels, Horizontal: 1300 x 1000 pixels |
Dimensions |
Gif: Vertical: 740 x 1000 pixels, Horizontal: 1300 x 1000 pixels |
Bit Depth |
Text and Images: 8-bit (grayscale) |
Scanning Technician |
Clifton Brooks |
Metadata Cataloger |
Clifton Brooks; Jan Robertson |
Call Number |
F 826 .C98 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6xs5tn5 |
Topic |
Frontier and pioneer life; Polygamy; Letters; Utah Expedition (1857-1858) |
Setname |
uum_ttb |
Date Created |
2005-04-20 |
Date Modified |
2011-04-07 |
ID |
329269 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xs5tn5 |
Identifier |
Page 097.gif |
Title |
Genteel Gentile, page 097 |
Description |
abiam salvatmn except through the agency of men) Thrs lady talked most eloquently to me about the "holy mystery of bang sealed m marriage" &r &c7 "Do not call us a &' she sad ,n answer to somethmg I sad "The behefs of the rest of the world are secianan, (ar cut off) 02 behef 1s pure truth- not held through ages, not qured by txne & trad~tmn, but every truly "endowed" Mormon may rece,ve any & every day a reveiatmn dreci from the Almghty hunself" &c &c "Moses, Jesus & Joseph have taught us & truth-but though they have passed away from us, God reveals hmself constantly to us Sill1 " I ia,d to a fmt wife, who pmscd polygamy, "If a woman loves her husband, how can she help suffering when her hus- band takes another wife?" " She does suffer but her suffering is only for t& world-our own position & that of our hus- bands, in another world, becomes so much the more elevated, accordimz to the number of wives taken. We lose t&world, but gam another & a bciter by our self abnrgatmn" `The one wfe of one husband, may watch for h,s commg step, may hasten to meet hm, io embrace him-but ,f a wife knows three or four other arms, beadei her own, my be around hm when she thus hastens, I should thmk her desm io meei & embrace hm would be somewhat confused, shaken, weak- ened" "Oh, WC Mormoni do not b&eve in any such doings They belong only to My love-& had better be qutc lad asrde, as useless & child&" &c A lady wrote io mc the other day, asking me io do xxne- thins for her. She gave me a definition of Mormonism, thus- "I answer hardily-Mormomsm E the most nwxorable nega- 97 |
Format |
image/png |
Source |
The genteel gentile : letters of Elizabeth Cumming, 1857-1858 |
Setname |
uum_ttb |
Date Created |
2005-04-14 |
Date Modified |
2005-04-14 |
ID |
329255 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xs5tn5/329255 |