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	Letters from Exile The Correspondence of Martha Hughes Cannon and Angus M. Cannon, 1886-1888 Edited by Constance L. Lieber and John Sillito Significant Mormon Diaries Series No. 3 © 1989 by Signature Books, Inc. Published in association with Smith Research Associates. Table of Contents Preface Introduction A Cannon Chronology Prominent Characters Photographs The Correspondence I. Voyage to England: March - December 1886 II. Sojourn among the "Gentiles": 1887 III. Return Home: January - June 1888 Index cover

Mattie thought her daughter, Elizabeth Rachel, was neither “pretty nor plain, a genuine little ‘happy between.’” (Courtesy Martha Hughes Porter Monti.)

Mattie and Angus used the pseudonym “Fred Hull” when discussing polygamous husband Frederick A. E. Meyer in their letters.

Anna Schettler Meyer (“Sister Hull”) and her daughter Annie were frequent companions of Mattie and Elizabeth

Mattie called Daniel H. Wells, who served as European mission president of the LDS church, a “Grand Old Man.” (Courtesy Utah State Historical Society.)

But Mattie had harsh words for Wells’s wife, Emmeline B. Wells, writing to her son-in-law, Lewis M. Cannon, that she knew Emmeline better than any other woman in Utah. (Courtesy Utah State Historical Society.)

The headquarters of the British Mission of the LDS Church at 42 Islington, Liverpool. (Courtesy LDS photo archives.)

Mattie found Charles W. Penrose a “charmer” but confessed to an “internal antipathy” between herself and Penrose’s wife, Dr. Romania Pratt Penrose, which would erupt “when I begin to jostle in the medical field again.” (Courtesy LDS photo archives.)

Mattie called Hiram B. Clawson, “when in distress … one of the best friends I had on earth.” (Courtesy Utah State Historical Society.)

The Deseret Hospital in Salt Lake City, where Mattie was resident physician from 1882 to 1886. (Courtesy Utah State Historical Society.)

Angus’s son Lewis M. Cannon traveled with Mattie in France and Switzerland while on a proselyting mission for the LDS church. Mattie believed that Lewis was a “good honest boy,” who would “do a great deal of good and be an honor to the cause in which we are engaged.”

A street scene in the Neuengasse (Bern). The Emmen-thalerhof hotel, where Mattie stayed, is the second building from the right. (Courtesy Burgerbibliotheck, Bern, Switzerland.)

Mattie believed that Eliza R. Snow was Mormonism’s “grandest woman.” (Courtesy Utah State Historical Society.)