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"It has been known some time past that the President [John Taylor]'s health was failing--that at times his mental faculties refused to act or if at all but very sluggishly--with almost entire loss of memory of what had been recently transpired."

Scope and Contents "While looking at Professor Alexander Winchell's book Adamites and pre-Adamites, the spirit showed me that if the doctrine of the prophet Joseph [Smith] were accepted, viz., that the earth is composed of parts or fragments of other earths--various different problems would become easy of solution--viz., different occurrences of races different geological periods of time. Existence of pre-Adamites. It would account for finding bones of mammoth [and]...

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"President Lorenzo Snow made a lengthy and powerful discourse an hour and more in length which affected all present and regulated the current of the spirit, cleansing the atmosphere, misunderstandings were adjusted between each other and between them and the First Presidency. We met fasting--when differences were settled we clothed and prayed in the Holy Order. We then broke bread and poured out Dixie Wine and celebrated the Death and suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ."

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"President Wilford Woodruff melted to tears blessed the brethren present believed that not one of us would fail but that all of us would overcome and obtain our crowns in the kingdom of God said we must be unified or God would put us away and place others in our stead."

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"Read reports of M. T. Farnsworth, recorder of Manti Temple-manifestations in St. George and Manti Temples, parts of which were expunged or rejected."

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B. H. Roberts "showing a broken heart and a contrite spirit stating the reasoning of the spirit with us the only male representative of his father's or his mother's line in the church for the redemption of their dead. This overcame him he broke down with a terrible struggle and conformed entirely to the wishes of the presidency and council."

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"Conversed about the conduct of ancient David, our modern Moses, and the nature and heinousness of certain sins--and mode of cleansing therefrom also about transmigration of souls as believed and taught by Charles and Abraham Stayner and some of their converts."

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This series contains the files by and about people in LDS history, arranged alphabetically by last name. The material in the files consists of typed extracts from the originals or photocopies. Selected quotes and a listing of letters indicate the nature of the material found in each folder. The quotations provide a sampling of the numerous topics covered.

Scope and Contents "Bro. Charles R. McBride ... and his wife had decided to grant a request I made of them about six months ago. To have sealed to me their daughter May who died nearly ten years ago. I had a dream which led me to take this step. I told my dream to Pres. Lyman and he advised it." "We as a council of Twelve decided to summon Bro. [Joseph W.] Summerhays before us Wednesday next at 1 p.m. to show cause...

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Items of Church History to be Referred to Pres. JFS Typed summaries from Roberts Collection, 11 pp.

Scope and Contents B. H. Roberts, letter to Moses Thatcher, 6 November 1896, 18 pp. handwritten, and 11 pp. typescript, says: "I think we both were mistaken in the course we pursued in that matter. We took an extreme view of the action of our brethren, in relation to political affairs and by denouncing their action in some things, and what was supposed to be their action in others, the effect of what we said and did--however upright...

Scope and Contents B. H. Roberts, letter to Charles W. Penrose, 9 January 1900,4 pp., says: "I know that you have been much handicapped by reason of the position that the [Deseret] News has had to assume; but really I thought that the News has been doing ... well.... It seems to me from this distance, and with such information as I...

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Scope and Contents Isa[ac Russell], letter to B. H. Roberts, 1 April 1909, 3 pp. Isaac Russell, letter to B. H. Roberts, 15 July 1909 "I was specially glad to hear of the interview with President [Joseph F.] Smith and of the unbending that seemed to result. You had spelled out to him so clearly the inevitable consequences towards which things are drifting, that I cannot see any other alternative than...

Scope and Contents Isacc Russell, letter to B. H. Roberts, 16 January 1910, 3 pp. Isacc Russell, letter to B. H. Roberts, 2 February 1910, 5 pp. Isacc Russell, letter to B. H. Roberts, 23 February 1910, 3 pp. B. H. Roberts, letter to Isacc Russell, 9 September 1910,4 pp. Nephi L. Morris, letter to "My Dear Moyle," 29 October 1910, 3 pp. Nephi L....

Scope and Contents Isacc Russell, letter to the National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures, 22 January 1912, 4 pp. Ben E. Rich, letter to the First Presidency, 22 January 1912, 2 pp. Isacc Russell, letter to Ben E. Rich, 22 January 1912, 3 pp. Ben E. Rich, letter to the First Presidency, 23 February 1912, 5 pp., says: "The Great Northern Company, which is responsible for the...

Scope and Contents Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Isacc Russell, 4 February 1911, 7 pp., says: "On one occasion a number of charges were made to the Administration while I was President about these polygamous marriages in Idaho and Wyoming as well as Utah, it being asserted that a number of our Federal officials had been polygamously married. A very thorough and careful investigation was made by the best men in the service into these...

Scope and Contents F. T. Pomeroy, letter to B. H. Roberts, 28 February 1928,2 pp. First Counsel of Seventy, letter to Henry D. Moyle and Counselors, 29 February 1928, 8 pp. James Duckworth, letter to F. T. Pomeroy, 9 February 1929, 3 pp. B. H. Roberts, letter to F. T. Pomeroy, 9 March 1929, 2 pp. B. H. Roberts, letter to Reed Smoot, 5 July 1929, 2 pp., says: "Sometime ago Elder...

Scope and Contents B. H. Roberts, letter to Heber J. Grant and Counselors, 15 December 1930, 2 pp., says: "I object to the dogmatic and finality spirit of the pronouncement and the apparent official announcement of them, as if speaking with final authority. If Elder [Joseph Fielding] Smith is merely putting forth his own opinions I call in question his competency to utter such dogmatism either as a scholar or as an Apostle. I am sure...

Scope and Contents "Data of Verbal and Grammatical Errors in the Book of Mormon," 41 pp., says: "Whence all these blunders! Surely neither the Lord nor any instrument fashioned by his wisdom can be held accountable for these errors. The truth must be, that the Prophet Joseph, through the inspiration of the spirit of the Lord on his mind, and aided in some way by the Urim [and] Thummim, obtained the meaning of the Nephite characters as he could think in, and as his knowledge of English was imperfect, the...