Scope and Contents Susa, letter to JFS, My dear brother "Jason" [code-name for JFS], 25 November 1889, 2 pp. Susa Y. Gates, letter to My dear Brother "Jason" [JFS], 3 December 1889 Susa, letter to JFS, 1 July 1902, 11 pp. Sister [Susa Young Gates], letter to My Brother [JFS], received 31 December 1906, 4 pp., says: "When I think of who and what you are--one of the greatest historical...

Scope and Contents Heber J. Grant, diary transcription, 1895-1911,16 pp. "The other counselor [Joseph F. Smith] is a plain blunt man and is lacking in cunning and the ability to shape things to suit his opinions." Heber J. Grant, letter to JFS, 11 May 1905, 6 pp. Heber J. Grant, Diary, 1-7 October 1903, 8 pp. Heber J. Grant, Diary, 9-10 November ...

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Scope and Contents Andrew Jenson, letter to JFS, John R. Winder, and Anthon H. Lund, 10 December 1906, 5 pp. Andrew Jenson, letter to JFS, 1 January 1915, 6 pp., says: "I believe you will understand me and have sympathy with me when I in the midst of my best endeavors have been turned down, especially when your predecessor, President [Lorenzo] Snow, turned me down through the influence of a man who was like a 'dog in...

Scope and Contents George C. Lambert, letter to First Presidency, 8 January 1902, 3 pp. George C. Lambert, letter to First Presidency, 27 January 1902, 3 pp. George C. Lambert, letter to First Presidency, 4 February 1902,4 pp. John Mooney Smith, Rudger Clawson, and Reed Smoot, letter to First Presidency and Council of Apostles, 14 February 1902, 3 pp. concerning settlement of the...

Scope and Contents Rudger Clawson: "I do not want my sons to see me go back on my family so that when I die it shall be said of me that I have gone back on a principle. I am aware of the feeling growing among the people that plural families are unpopular. They are growing less.... This principle will never be taken from the earth. There were many a first wife who rejoiced at the manifesto. There was on the other [hand] many who grieved and were afflicted. There are some who think the church is going back upon...

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"Temple meeting with Twelve: it was shown by Bro. [Rudger] Clawson that the church is worth 3,200,000.00 above all liabilities. This was a good showing."

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"In the afternoon we had a large meeting. I spoke upon inconsistent claim made by the Reorganites [members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints], that this church is rejected because the temple was not finished in a certain time and their church is accepted because they do not accept temple work!"

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"I attended temple meeting. It was agreed to release Bro. [William B.] Preston. He is getting worse, and is even drinking. He is not responsible. It was agreed to appoint C. W. Nibley to take his place... In the evening I wrote the release of Bishop Preston. I made it as mild as I could."

Scope and Contents "I spent the forenoon in the Historian's Office where Bro. C. W. Penrose and I listened to Bro. [B. H.] Roberts reading his concluding chapter on the prophet Joseph Smith. We got him to eliminate his theories in regard to intelligences as conscious, self-existing beings or entities before being organized into spirits. This doctrine has raised much discussion and the inference on which he builds his theory is very vague. The prophet's speech delivered as a funeral sermon over King Follett is...

Scope and Contents "The Seven Deadly Heresies," typescript, 1980,22 pp. "The Seven Deadly Heresies," printed, 7 pp. "Heresy one: There are those who say that God is progressing in knowledge and is learning new truths.... Heresy two concerns itself with the relationship between organic evolution and revealed religion and asks the question whether they can be harmonized.... Heresy three: There are...

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"A reply was sent to Bro. O. V. Avy's letter received yesterday, granting him and Bro. Emil Buchmiller the privilege of taking each a wife among the Mayas of Yucatan, in case they found it would aid them in the more perfect accomplishment of the mission they proposed; but telling them there must be no plural marriages or other sexual relations with the women of that race."

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"Read the following 'Pres. Brigham Young died at 4 o'clock.' This seemed a heavy blow. Yet I felt a weight of sorrow on the receipt of each telegram. And now felt that the Master Mind of Utah and the Whole World had been called away leaving a blank and a sorrowful time for the Latter-day Saints. Received the following: 'Pres. Brigham Young's funeral will be held at 12 o'clock on Sunday next.' Felt much depressed in spirits."

Scope and Contents "Read to high council Bro. Francis M. Lyman's remarks at the last meeting of stake conference. Council adopted resolution which I wrote dissenting from the doctrine advanced by Bro. Lyman that an apostle had the right to change a regulation established in a regularly organized stake of Zion of his own volition, without instructions from the First Presidency. The presidency of the stake were requested to write the views of the council and present them with the resolution and the report of the...

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"The School of the Prophets was re-organized after the ancient order. We went to the Endowment House fasting, had our feet washed by the president (see D&C 88). Partook of the sacrament &c. Thirty-eight brethren were present on this occasion."