(MORMONS) Issue of The Wasp

Sale 2404 - Lot 193

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(MORMONS.) Issue of The Wasp. Volume I, no. 39. 4 pages, 15 x 11 1/4 inches, on one folding sheet; worn with several tears and the loss of two inches of text. (MRS) Nauvoo, IL: Taylor & Woodruff, 28 January 1843

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An issue of the first newspaper published for the Mormon community at Nauvoo. It was launched to provide local news in counterpoint to the hostile Warsaw Signal. John Taylor served as editor. This issue includes a long discussion of the efforts to arrest Joseph Smith for the assassination attempt on Governor Boggs, as well the Nauvoo financial report signed in type by Joseph Smith as mayor. No issues found at auction since 1959. Crawley 148; Flake 9625.