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JS’s Letter to Phelps
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JS’s Letter to Phelps
22 July 1840
JS wrote letter to excommunicated member and former church leader William W. Phelps, accepting Phelps’s apology for past actions and encouraging him to reunite with church, Nauvoo, Illinois.