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Correspondence about publication of the Book of Mormon in Liverpool, England; administrative reorganization of Arizona settlements; economic problems of the colony in Conejos, Colorado; administrative neglect in Tooele, Utah, schools; the death of Orson Hyde; and an audit of the Laie pineapple plantation in Hawaii.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the establishment of United Order colonies in Arizona and New Mexico; housing arrangements for the widows of Orson Hyde; the purchase of a meetinghouse in Christiana, Norway; the colonization of Castle Valley; the formation of mining cooperative associations in and around Weber County; an outbreak of disease in Arizona settlements; John Taylor's threat to call for a boycott of the Ogden Junction if it continued to publish articles...

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...

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Correspondence concerning John Taylor's disapproval of members turning to the civil rather than church courts to resolve community disputes; the selection of school textbooks; John Taylor's condemnation of the breaching of land agreements with the Indians or otherwise "oppressing the Lamanites"; publication of Orson Pratt's pamphlet, "A Key to the Universe"; and the Perpetual Emigration Fund.

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Correspondence concerning president of the Holland Mission among the Dutch settlers in Cache Valley; selection of school textbooks; Orson Pratt's suggested alterations in the new edition of the Doctrine and Covenants; migration of new converts to Utah; and donation of several church publications to the Princeton Seminary Library.

Scope and Contents The appointment of Sanpete Stake President Canute Peterson as assistant superintendent of Manti Temple construction; a directive to compile membership records for Australian Mormons; a progress report on the European missions; a letter to Orson Pratt concerning publication of the Doctrine and Covenants and the calling of Logan Stake President Moses Thatcher as an apostle; discussion of statewide cooperative trade agreements; the submission of Mormon-written...

Scope and Contents Correspondence about the introduction of missionaries into Mexico City; a letter to Orson Pratt concerning publication of the Doctrine and Covenants, Book of Mormon, and Pratt's pamphlet, "Key to the Universe," in England; discussion of the purchase of Lee's Ferry on the Grand Colorado River; and an inquiry about a grant from the Arizona legislature to John D. Lee, who was executed for involvement in the Mountain...

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the establishment of ward trustees to hold local church property; the visit of John R. Park, president of the University of Deseret, and Louis F. Moench, president of the Weber School District, to northern Utah stakes; financing emigration from England; proposed publication of poetry by Mary J. Tanner, a Provo homemaker; the incarceration of George Reynolds in a Lincoln, Nebraska, penitentiary following his polygamy conviction; the dispute over Brigham Young's...

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning George Reynolds's imprisonment in a Nebraska penitentiary and subsequent return to Utah; emigration of European converts; a directive to the Sanpete Stake president to excommunicate church members who disobey orders to distribute irrigation water inequitably; the selection of school textbooks; the dispute between John Taylor and Brigham Young's heirs over settlement of Young's estate; water disputes among settlers; construction progress on the Logan and Manti...

Scope and Contents Correspondence about the appointment of water masters to oversee the distribution of water rights in central and southern Utah; John Taylor's warning against immigrants' dishonesty in obtaining lower railway fares by misrepresenting their children's ages; the church Auditing Committee's assessment of debts by Brigham Young's sons, Lorenzo D., Arta D. and Ernest J., incurred while they served missions in England; settlement of the Brigham Young estate; John Taylor's chastisement of an Ogden...

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning land and timber laws; measures taken to protect church property from Brigham Young's heirs; the absence of workers from the temple stone quarry; the collection of money from the Perpetual Emigration Fund to help Mormons in Georgia escape "mobs and wicked men"; the apostle's? decision to send Tabernacle organist Joseph J. Daynes to New York City for finishing lessons; and John Taylor's directive that families of missionaries be cared for by their neighbors,...

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning former missionary Rudger Clawson's return to Dalton, Georgia, to testify for the government in the Joseph Standing murder case, as well as the acquittal of the accused; school book appropriations for the Bear River Indian farm; progress in the Southern States Mission; purchase of the St. Johns, Arizona, area; John Taylor's agreement to pay $75,000 to settle the dispute over the Brigham Young estate; transfer of the Cashmere Goat Company's 540 goats to Orderville;...

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning the abolition of polygamy as a requirement for Utah statehood; progress of the European Mission; United States President Rutherford B. Hayes negative attitude about Mormonism and his appointment of Kentucky resident Eli H. Murray to Utah's governorship; the continued imprisonment of George Reynolds; the purchase of land in Mexico; Governor Murray's veto of a bill allowing women to hold public office; the 1880 Utah church; and church operation of the Pahriah...

Scope and Contents Correspondence about a proposal to erect a silk factory in Salt Lake City; the water rights dispute between Mona and Goshen settlements; aiding Indians in central Utah; John Taylor's instructions on how to deal with church members who disobey ranking priesthood leaders; plans to use stone cuttings from the Salt Lake Temple to build the Salt Lake Eighteenth Ward chapel; experimentation with glassmaking; a compilation of the history of Ogden to be included in Hubert H. Bancroft's ...

Scope and Contents Correspondence about the acquisition of life-size statues of Joseph and Hyrum Smith from their death masks; John Taylor's directive against mother-daughter plural marriages; the release of William Budge as British Mission president so he could represent Mormon Idahoans in the state legislature; John Taylor's decision to delay the installation of electric lights in Salt Lake City; Albert Carrington's calling as British Mission president and editor of the Millennial...

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Correspondence about the progress of the European Missions; Utah Gov. Eli Murray's issuance of the certificate of election to George Q. Cannon's losing opponent; and John Taylor's lenient stance regarding the observance of the Word of Wisdom (Mormon code of health) by aged converts of the church.

Scope and Contents Letters to George Q. Cannon, first counselor in the church presidency and former Utah territory delegate to Congress, concerning anti-Mormon legislation to be considered by Congress, and Utah Gov. Eli Murray's assistance in preparing them; the possibility of the governor's replacement; the death of Cannon's first wife, Elizabeth Hoagland Cannon; attempts to win national approval of Utah statehood and officially seat Cannon in the House of Representatives; Cannon's intellectual debates with...