A Good Time Coming: Mormon Letters to Scotland (Utah Centennial Series, Vol 4)

ISBN 10: 0874802946 / ISBN 13: 9780874802948

Published by Univ of Utah Pr (Tx) December 1988, 1988

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Minor surface and edge wear to the cover. Previous owner's name inside. Pages show reader wear with some underlining and notations. The binding is tight and pages are secure. Lighter shelf and use wear to the dust jacket. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Seller Inventory # 1210576

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Good Time Coming: Mormon Letters to Scotland (Utah Centennial Series, Vol 4)
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr (Tx) December 1988
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874802946
• ISBN 13: 9780874802948
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good - Cash
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • LDS History

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Synopsis

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.