Letter to John Taylor, 9 April 1856
Great Salt Lake City
Elder J. Taylor
Dear Sir
I wrote two Letters
to you by the last Mail one via Calafornia & the other via
of the Eastern Mail. I wrote you upon the subject of ny
going East to get a font of type made in the Deserett Alphabet
& some Books printed in that letter. Since I wrote we have
passed through some changes during our interesting General
Conference, & among other things my mission is changed I
was appointed by the conferene to assist in the Historians office
So I remain at Home, & the intentions now is to have
Brother Erastus Snow to get the type made & forward it
to this place & paper & binding materials & forward it
to this place so we will do our printing here. Brother
Snow will manage this matter on his arrval to St Louis
You will learn by this Mail that yourself with
Elder G A. Smith are appointed by the conventioin
as the Delegates to washington to present the Constit-
ution of the State of Deseret & to ask for a State
Goverment We hope you may be sucessful. We have
just closed our General Conference we have had an interesting
time some 250 or 300 Mormon's were appointed to various
parts of the Vineyard. the Spirit of the Lord was with the
