Apr 14, 2015 - Sale 2380

Sale 2380 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MORMONS.) Daugherty, Mr. City of Nauvoo. 2 pages on one sheet. 8vo, early plain wrappers; minimal wear. (MRS) [Springfield, IL], 16 December 1844

Additional Details

A report by the Illinois Committee on the Judiciary, supporting a petition to revoke Nauvoo's charter. Cites "not only flagrant abuses of the powers conferred by said act on the city of Nauvoo . . . but a disposition on the part of the citizens to continue those abuses in defiance of all law." Mentions Joseph Smith, but not his recent assassination. Flake 4192 (citing only one copy); none known at auction.