Several letters from John Taylor to his wife, Margaret; a January 27, 1886, editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune concerning the admission of new states into the Union; and the first presidency's March 1886 directive to the saints, taken from the book, Messages of the First Presidency.

Several of John Taylor's revelations, and Raymond and Samuel Taylor's correspondence discussing them; Utah Gov. Caleb W. West's proclamation of his intent to prosecute all those who practice polygamy; Kate Field's article, "Mormon Blood Atonement," published in the North American Review; and a sketch of Joseph Alva West's life from the Latter Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia by Andrew Jensen.

"An Epistle of the First Presidency," delivered at the Fifty-Seventh General Annual Conference in Provo, in which antipolygamy laws are discussed; a record of the 1893 United States Supreme Court session in which Wilford Woodruff testified that Mormons had quit practicing polygamy; John Taylor's obituary in the Deseret News, July 29, 1887; and correspondence concerning the George J. Taylor papers.