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...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Taylor family papers (1844-1994) are a collection of material reflecting the life and work of John Taylor, third president of the LDS Church, and his descendants, John W. Taylor, Raymond Woolley Taylor, and Samuel Taylor. Included are letters, biographies, research materials, genealogies, articles written by other authors, diaries, journals, and books. Correspondence comprises a major portion of the collection and has been organized within the papers of each individual....

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Correspondence concerning the allocation of church tithing funds, the calling of missionaries, and the transfer of church property to private holders in order to prevent confiscation by federal authorities.

Scope and Contents A report of John Taylor's seventy-eighth birthday celebration at the Gardo House; letters concerning church financial affairs, including the construction of the Provo Theatre, the defense of Lorenzo Snow before the United States Supreme Court, and the Spanish translation of the Book of Mormon; John Taylor's inquiry into the worthiness of disfellowshipped treasury employee A. M. Musser; and a letter concerning the employment of Andrew J. Jenson to work...

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Correspondence that includes John Taylor's directive to call more settlers to San Juan County to prevent losing political control to non-Mormons there.

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A directive from John Taylor to maintain a record of names and charges of federally indicted Mormons in the church historian's office; an Ogden letter complaining of youth participation in "wickedness" at Park Lake resort; and church financial correspondence.

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John Taylor's revelation, recorded by Joseph F. Smith, Jr., reaffirming the "new and everlasting covenant" involving plural marriage; 1886 Revelation: A Revelation of the Lord to John Taylor, an illustrated pamphlet published in 1963 discussing the revelation in detail; and two short letters discussing financial matters.

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A discourse by Mormon scholar Ogden Kraut, responding to Apostle Mark E. Peterson's request that he denounce his belief in the practice of polygamy, in which he cites John Taylor and other Mormon figures in maintaining that "the principle" is correct and eternal.

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Correspondence concerning various church issues, including John Taylor's invitation by the Rocky Mountain Electric Light Co. to attend an exhibition of the Swan incandescent lightbulb.

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The program to John Taylor's funeral in the Salt Lake Tabernacle.

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John Taylor's 1882 revelation reaffirming the divinity of the "new and everlasting covenant" of plural marriage, with instructions to break secular laws that prohibit its practice; and some smaller revelations concerning the church organization and appointment priesthood leaders, church financial decisions, and the construction and sanctity of the temple.

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Correspondence with Brigham Young while John Taylor managed church affairs in New York concerning the organization of handcart migration companies from Europe.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Brigham Young concerning the prospect of Utah statehood; employment in the eastern United States for European immigrants; methods of improving the economy; the abolitionist movement and indications of civil war; the Mormon and St. Louis Luminary, two newspapers published by John Taylor to counter attacks by the eastern popular press; and a letter concerning the translation of the ...

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A letter sent from Council Bluffs, (Iowa) Indian territory, by John Taylor to his son, Joseph James Taylor, concerning the planned migration from Nauvoo, Illinois; and a letter from Taylor to his family while he was in St. Louis preparing for his mission to France.

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A letter from Raymond Taylor to Sam Taylor citing the publication of John Taylor's lesser known revelations in early Swedish and German editions of the Doctrine and Covenants.

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Correspondence from John Taylor's first mission to the British Isles discussing missionary efforts, the compilation of a new hymnbook, and publication of the Millennial Star.

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John Taylor's narrative of the murder of Joseph and Hyrum Smith at Carthage Jail.