Post-manifesto polygamy

Description:

These letters among two women and their husband offer a rare look into the personal dynamics of an LDS polygamous relationship during the years when polygamy and its more prominent advocates came under federal judicial assault and made Utah statehood possible. Abraham "Owen" Woodruff was a young Mormon apostle, the son of President Wilford Woodruff, remembered for the Woodruff Manifesto, which called for the divinely inspired termination of plural marriage.

subjects: Polygamy,  Mormon Church,  Correspondence,  Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,  Religious aspects

People: Helen May Winters Woodruff (b. 1873),  Abraham Owen Woodruff (1872-1904),  Eliza Avery Clark Woodruff Lambert (b. 1882)