By: Ardis E. Parshall - November 06, 2016 David Marshall Stuart is the young man whose 1856 letter to Amasa Lyman, “the first friendly letter I ever got,” was recently posted on Keepa. He wrote a delightful and sometimes dramatic memoir about his early years as a Latter-day Saint, which will be posted serially here on Sunday mornings. You’ll soon understand why he so appreciated that 1856 letter. I was born in the town of Irvine, ...
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