Last week I had noted here that Canada’s first Prime Minister John A. MacDonald had written the Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley of Preston, in response to a letter received from Salt Lake City regarding Mormons.
MacDonald’s reply was not the most complementary.
Well after thinking about where the original letter is and feeling I was going to have to contact the LDS Church history library to find anything I was pretty sure it would take a while. Then this morning as I was paging through Charles Card’s Canadian journal I found mention of the letter and BY Card had reproduced the letter in photocopy form. It is finds like that which just make my day.
Unfortunately upon reading the letter it is actually from Card and not from Salt Lake. So it was not what I was looking for but another piece to the puzzle.
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