A Good Time Coming - Mormon Letters to Scotland

Buchanan, Frederick Stewart

ISBN 10: 0874802946 / ISBN 13: 9780874802948

Published by University of Utah Press, Salt Lake city, UT, 1988

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Hardcover and DJ are in great; Among the effects of James McNeill after he died in Ayr, Scotland, in 1964 was a collection of 130 letters from sons and friends of David and Ann McNeill, who had immigrated to Utah and elsewhere in the United States between 1853 and 1872. The letters in the McNeill-Thompson collection in the archives of the University of t. Andrews are but a small sampling of the letters that must have been sent by the 5,000 Scots who became Mormon immigrants in the nineteenth century. However, these letters transcend common stereotypes in that they expose a variety of personalities and experiences.; 6.25" x 9.25"; 319 pages;

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Good Time Coming - Mormon Letters to Scotland
• Publisher: University of Utah Press, Salt Lake city, UT
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874802946
• ISBN 13: 9780874802948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good condition,
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Among the effects of James McNeill after he died in Ayr, Scotland, in 1964 was a collection of 130 letters from sons and friends of David and Ann McNeill, who had immigrated to Utah and elsewhere in the United States between 1853 and 1872. The letters in the McNeill-Thompson collection in the archives of the University of t. Andrews are but a small sampling of the letters that must have been sent by the 5,000 Scots who became Mormon immigrants in the nineteenth century. However, these letters transcend common stereotypes in that they expose a variety of personalities and experiences.