(ILLINOIS) Wright David Memoir of Alvan Stone

Sale 2420 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 531

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(ILLINOIS.) Wright, David. Memoir of Alvan Stone. [4], [9]-256 pages. 16mo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; intermittent foxing, minor dampstaining. Boston, 1837

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Biography of a Massachusetts Baptist missionary who went to southern Illinois in 1831 and died there in 1833; extracts from his diary and correspondence comprise much of the book. He includes an account of very early Mormon efforts in Schuyler County, IL (pages 210-211), including a Methodist preacher who converted and then apparently went insane, destroying most of his personal property: "His conduct . . . blasted the hopes of Mormonism in this region for a season." Buck 232; Flake 8482; Howes W692; Hubach, Travel Narratives page 70; Sabin 105571. No copies traced at auction since 1899.