Tassel Depot history

At about that same time, President Hinckley received from him as a gift to the Church a draft letter of Thomas Bullock, dated 27 January 1865.

Edward Leavy joined the company in 1921 as a salesman after Eldrodt was no longer with the company.

When Hofmann died in 1929, his family sold the company to Ed Leavy; the name was subsequently changed to Hofmann & Leavy.

In 1942, after serving in World War II, Edward Leavy's son Jack joined the company.

“Hinckley said at a press conference that, starting in 1980, he had purchased about 40 documents from Hofmann.

When the bombing murders of 15 October 1985 were shown to be involved somehow with the sale of early Mormon history documents, the news interest was global.

Also included will be the little-known draft of Joseph Smith’s history mentioned in the Church’s 16 October 1986 statement that denied Church possession of an Oliver Cowdery history.

Does dramatic suspense justify such concealment? It does for fiction, but when the reputations and faith of real people and real institutions are at stake, especially when thousands who read the first installment will not read the second one a week later, that kind of delay is unjustified. For example, consider the Los Angeles Times Magazine story of 29 March 1987, about two months after Mark Hofmann confessed to two murders and two specific instances of forgery.