Includes extracts from letters criticizing Charles K. Backus, "An American King," Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1882 by Elvira Eliza Field Strang Baker, Charles Jesse Strang, Clement James Strang, Charles J. Grier (formerly known as James Jesse Strang, Jr.), and Eugenie J. Phillips, as well as discrete letters by Wingfield Watson to Henry A. Chaney, August 15, 1877; and Myraette Abigail Strang Losee to Dennison, possibly John Dennison, February 7, 1878.