John Taylor provides a summary statement of the LDS view of marriage in the 1880s; emphasizes that plural marriage is the divinely ordained means for the human race to be propagated.
Text of the 1882 Edmunds Act.
Anonymous Taylor family member copy of John Taylor's 1886 revelation.
John W. Taylor copy of the 1886 Taylor revelation.
Original handwritten copy of John Taylor's 1886 revelation.
Photographic facsimile of the John Taylor 1886 revelation.
Photographic reprint of the 1886 Taylor revelation.
Deseret News announces the death of John Taylor.
Deseret News reports Wilford Woodruff sustained as Church president.
Revelation to Wilford Woodruff dated November 24, 1889.
Heber J. Grant hears John W. Taylor tell the Quorum of the Twelve about his (Taylor's) father's 1886 revelation.
Official text of Wilford Woodruff's 1890 manifesto ending plural marriage.
B. H. Roberts' biography of John Taylor records the place of his death.
B. H. Roberts describes John Taylor going into hiding in 1885 after passage of the Edmunds Act.
Abraham H. Cannon records that in quorum meeting John W. Taylor mentioned his father's revelation.
JFS releases 1904 Manifesto ending plural marriage definitively.
1909 copy of the 1886 John Taylor revelation by Joseph Fielding Smith.
Reprint of minutes of membership trial of John W. Taylor; mentions the quorum discussion around the 1886 Taylor revelation.
Salt Lake Tribune reports on John W. Taylor's excommunication in 1911.
Nathaniel Baldwin hears of the John Taylor revelation at a fundamentalist meeting.
Joseph W. Musser records account of the 1886 Taylor revelation and copies it in his journal.
Broadbent publishes the Taylor revelation circa 1927.
First Presidency (Heber J. Grant, Anthony W. Ivins, J. Reuben Clark) publish official statement denouncing the practice of plural marriage in the Church.
Memorandum from J. Reuben Clark explaining how the First Presidency came in possession of the Taylor Revelation.
Memorandum from J. Reuben Clark explaining how the First Presidency acquired the 1886 revelation.
Reprint of the 1886 Taylor revelation circa 1934.
Letter of Anthony W. Ivins written in 1934 disputes the binding authority of the Taylor revelation.
Douglas M. Todd, Sr. records an account of how the Taylor revelation was returned to the Church.
Apostle Melvin J. Ballard addresses the Taylor revelation in a 1934 letter.
Joseph W. Musser in Truth magazine publishes photographic facsimile of the Taylor revelation.
Unknown Fundamentalist source claims B. H. Roberts thought the 1886 revelation was authentic.
Anonymous Fundamentalist publication from circa 1940s reprints the John Taylor revelation.
Joseph W. Musser quotes the Taylor revelation in a 1940 article on John Taylor.
Joseph W. Musser reprints the Taylor revelation in a 1942 article.
Chapter 5 of Dean C. Jessee's dissertation discusses the 1886 Taylor revelation.
1963 Fundamentalist reprint of the John Taylor revelation.
Kenneth W. Godfrey writes on the 1886 John Taylor revelation in Dialogue.
Typescript copy of Joseph Fielding Smith's copy of John Taylor's 1886 revelation.
Mark E. Petersen disputes the authenticity of the 1886 John Taylor revelation.
Samuel W. Taylor writes about the 1886 revelation in biography of his grandfather.
J. Max Anderson writes on the 1886 revelation in his 1979 book.
Samuel W. Taylor discusses his grandfather's 1886 revelation.
D. Michael Quinn discusses the archival history of the John Taylor revelation.
Samuel W. Taylor and Raymond W. Taylor record the 1886 revelation among John Taylor's papers.
Elden J. Watson discusses the 1886 John Taylor revelation; disputes the Fundamentalist reading of the text.
Lawrence R. Flake writes on the ecclesiastical tenure of John W. Taylor.
BYU Religious Studies Center publication on John Taylor discusses the 1886 revelation.
Reprint of the 1886 Taylor Revelation in a 2014 volume on Mormon documents and sources.
Brian C. Hales reviews John Taylor's 1886 revelation.
Volume 2 of Saints briefly mentions the 1886 John Taylor revelation in its narrative about the Manifesto.
Church handbook policy on plural marriage.
