A few years ago I was doing research at the DeGolyer Library at Southern Methodist University [Dallas, Texas]. I spent the afternoon wearing white gloves going through every page of Mary Elizabeth Rollinâ??s copy of A Book of Commandments. She was the young woman who, with the aid of her sister Caroline, rescued some of the sheets of the Book of Commandments that had been scattered in the streets after a mob destroyed the press in Independence, Missouri on July 20, 1833.
I was especially intrigued by her memories of that eventful day. In Maryâ??s own beautiful hand, she inscribed the following inside the front cover of her book:
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