Church Business--Presiding Apostle, 1879 January 25-February 20

File — Box: 2A, Folder: 23

Identifier: A

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

A letter to Wilford Woodruff about the Reynolds polygamy case, the Mormon women's delegation to Washington, D.C., and John Taylor's New York Tribune interview; discussion of land acquisitions for Brigham Young College in Logan; Salt Lake Fourteenth Ward Bishop Thomas Taylor's petition for compensation for his assistance in early church migration efforts; a letter to William Budge, president of the British Mission, concerning emigration and publication of the Book of Mormon in England; John Taylor's chastisement of missionaries requesting to return home after only a few months in the field; and an order that some members of the Weber Stake High Council be excluded from judging an Ogden church trial.

Dates

1879 January 25-February 20

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