Church Business--President-in-Exile, 1887 March 2-December 20

File — Box: 3B, Folder: 21

Identifier: B

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Correspondence concerning the selling of Salt Lake Dramatic Association to individual Mormons; questions from a local leader regarding self-administration of the sacrament, abortion, interracial members, bestiality, and exposure of the temple endowment ceremony; John Taylor's refusal to assist the Logan Stake in paying Logan Temple operating expenses; the search for a sawyer and carpenter to assist on the Washakie Indian Mission; the church's $6,600 settlement with excommunicated apostle Albert Carrington; Helaman Pratt's report and request to be released from the Mexican Mission; and the church's first order of Hubert H. Bancroft's book, History of the Pacific States.

Dates

1887 March 2-December 20

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