Church Patriarchs & Patriarchal Blessings – 6 Large Volumes – One-Of-A-Kind Set

Unique set; six large size black hardcover bindings; someone put these together, photo-copying a lot of books and materials, obviously to have a collection of everything they could find regarding patriarchal blessings and the patriarchs themselves.  Clearly someone collected all this info and copied it and had it arranged and bound. It is doubtful that there is any other collection quite like it.

Here’s the contents:

Volume One:  Joseph Smith Sr. & Hyrum Smith:

1. List of Patriarchs to the Church

2. Joseph Smith Sr. First Patriarch to the Church, Thesis by Earnest N. Skinner

3. Hyrum Smith Patriarch, by Pearson H. Corbett

Volume Two: William Smith

1. William Smith, Brother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Thesis by Calvin P. Rudd

2. Dialogue Vol.16, No.2., Summer 1983 “William Smith, 1811-93: Problematic Patriarch” by Irene M. Bates.

3. Dialogue Vol.18, No.2, Summer 1985 “William B. Smith: The Persistent ‘Pretender'” by Paul M. Edwards.

4. William Smith on Mormonism….Origin of the Book of Mormon…(published in 1883 by the RLDS Church).

5. A few pages from “The Return” about William Smith

6. Remonstrance of William Smith et al., of Covington, Kentucky…

7. BYU Studies, Vol.16., No.2, Winter 1976, “The Mormon Succession Crisis of 1844” by D. Michael Quinn.

8. The Family of Joseph Smith, by E. Cecil McGavin, Chapter Twelve “Mother Smith After the Martyrdom”

9. An American Prophet’s Record, The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith, edited by Scott H. Faulring, (pages on William Smith)

10. An Intimate Chronicle. The Journals of William Clayton, edited by George D. Smith, (certain pages on William Smith).

11. Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, edited by Scott G. Kenney, (misc. pages from multiple volumes of the set, about William Smith)

12. A Proclamation, October 1945, by William Smith

13. Minutes of a Conference, Held by the Church of Jesus Christ…Held at the home of William Jarman, Ohio, 1846

14. 124 Patriarchal Blessings given by William Smith, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Micro 459 “Patriarchal Blessing Book” of the Theodore A. Schroeder papers.”

Volume Three: Items on Them, 1835-1929

This volume and subsequent volumes contain a ton of information on patriarchs and patriarchal blessings gathered from many sources and photocopies and bound in these volumes.

Overall this is a very unique collection on this topic, and most definitely took someone a very long time to put it all together.

Books are in good condition. Note: Some items weren’t photocopied as clearly as maybe they should have been, but everything is pretty readable.

SHIPPING: This set might cost extra to ship; so be prepared to maybe pay extra.

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