Microfilm of 29 letters sent by Lewis Allen to William Atkin between April 24, 1884, and January 30, 1889. The majority of the letters are on letterhead from the President's Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. Allen writes primarily of Mormon leadership and church events ("never been in deeper water in my life in Church Matters than today," he wrote in 1884), local residents, and family issues. Also includes one letter from Wilford Woodruff to Atkin dated April 23, 1888, in which Woodruff replies to Atkin's letter describing a visit from Marshals at St. George and subsequent arrests (frames 39-40). On the same reel (frames 1-68) as MFILM 378 (item 2), letters of Wilford Woodruff to William Atkin. All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1954. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Lewis Allen (1813-1883) was born in Somerset, Kentucky. By 1836 his family had moved to Missouri, where Allen joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He emigrated to Utah in 1862 and worked as a farmer, cobbler, mill and factory manager, and Ward teacher. He served on a mission to Nevada in 1869 before moving to Long Valley in 1870. Allen died in Orderville, Utah, in 1883.
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