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Pages 106 and 109 of the history of Kaysville, published by the Davis County company of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.

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Correspondence concerning the financial struggles of the Provo Manufacturing Company.

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John Taylor's journal entries, briefly introduced by church historian Brigham H. Roberts, documenting the United States Army's petition for assistance in the Mexican-American War; the Mormons' nonaggression agreement with the Pottawattamie Indians; and their encouragement by Taylor, Parley P. Pratt, and Orson Hyde to volunteer for the battalion.

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Correspondence concerning the solvency of Z.C.M.I.; a directive forbidding unauthorized organ performances in the tabernacle; and a report of Utah territorial Gov. Eli Murray's hand in the legal harassment of polygamists.

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Excerpts from the Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including documentation of the Mormons' first civil ordinances in the Salt Lake Valley--laws regarding vagrancy, disorderliness, adultery, fornication, robbery, and drunkenness.

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Excerpts from the Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with entries from Winter Quarters and correspondence regarding settlement prospects in California, the Mormon Battalion, general conference, and convert migration.

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Correspondence from Albert K. Thurber, president of the Sevier Stake, concerning settlers' relationship with Indians, mission calls and priesthood assignments, and the construction of a wagon road through the Henry Mountains; and a sketch of Thurber's life from the Latter Day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia by Andrew Jenson.

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Letters from Lucinda Lee Dalton, a Beaver, Utah, school teacher and widowed mother of six, concerning her anxiety about premarital sexual relations between her sister and late husband, the eternal fate of her children, and her desire not to marry again; and a letter from missionaries serving among the "Lamanites" asking about "the propriety of brethren of the mission marrying into the Navajo nation."

Scope and Contents Correspondence from Thomas Taylor, bishop of the Salt Lake Fourteenth Ward and former church migration agent, in which he petitions John Taylor (no relation) for reimbursement of expenses incurred while overseeing migration efforts; a report of his excommunication for homosexuality; his letter to John Taylor pleading for mercy; a sketch of his life and the life of George H. Taylor, who replaced him as Fourteenth Ward bishop, from the Latter Day Saint Biographical...

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Correspondence concerning G. W. Thatcher's suggestion to have Karl Maeser replace him as president of Brigham Young College in Logan, and conflicts with various Indian tribes and competition to other sects in their conversion to Christianity; and John Taylor's address to the Wyoming territorial legislature upon its visit to Utah during the church's fiftieth anniversary jubilee.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Thomas E. Taylor, son of John Taylor and president of the Deseret News Company, concerning business transactions and the dealing of company stock; operation of the printing office and paper mill; and publication of the Deseret News, the Spanish translation of the Book of Mormon, other religious literature, and a hymnal; and a sketch of his life from the Latter Day Saint...

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The First Presidency's spring 1886 conference address, delivered in absentia and recorded in James R. Clark's Messages of the First Presidency, which denounces those who worked to coerce the church into banning polygamy.

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Correspondence with John W. Taylor, apostle and John Taylor's son, concerning family matters; relations with the federal government and non-Mormon factions in Utah; the first presidency's published epistle about polygamy and government harassment; and church and political developments in Idaho, including John W. Taylor's trial for treason.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Joseph E. Taylor, first counselor of the Salt Lake Stake, concerning the administration of Brigham Young College in Logan and training prospective Utah teachers with a strong religious background; inquiries about whether to proceed with conferences while church leaders were in hiding; reports concerning the nomination and support of church members for civil office; and "The Schoolmaster and his Pupils," an article by Joseph E. Taylor published in the ...

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Correspondence with R. J. Taylor, John Taylor's son, concerning the sale of land and property of the Ogden Tithing Yard; and a copy of R. J. Taylor's March 17, 1905, obituary from the Deseret News.

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Correspondence regarding the reinstatement of excommunicated Mormons, the work of astrologers in healing of the sick, and the other church business.

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Solomon F. Kimball's article, published in the Improvement Era, about Young's 1864 trip through Sanpete Valley.

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Correspondence that includes a letter from the mother of sculptor Cyrus Dallon, requesting financial assistance for his studies in Boston.

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Inquiries from non-Mormons about joining the church in Utah, financing the publication of their pro-Mormon writings, and the resolution of questions concerning the 1883 Diamond Mine flood.

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A "memorial for the poor," in which Williams warns John Taylor of the wickedness of the rich in the church; a follow-up letter again asking for a reply; an appeal for "full fellowship" in the church after he reported being "pushed out" by local church leaders; and a letter from him reporting his reinstatement in the church, claiming divine guidance, and asking the first presidency to let him fulfill his "mission."