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  Part of Letter to George Albert Smith, 28 May 1856

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  Historian office. G. S. L. City May 28th 1856. Hon. Geo. A. Smith, Dear Sir, As yet I have filled your place as Historian only at a very poor rate. The day before I parted with you at the mouth of the Kanyon, I assisted in skinning an ox which died suddenly, and by so doing I became inoculated with poison, and mortification ensued; and it has proved to be the hardest attack against my life, of any thing that I have passed thro in ...

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  May 28, 1856