Letter to Lyman Wight, 1 July 1857
G. S. L. City
Brother Lyman Wight
Dear Sir
I take the liberty of addressing a
few lines to you for various reasons, one is for old acquaintance sake,
and another for the purpose of making a request of you, and upon
this subject I will write first, it is this. During the last year I
have been engaged in writing the History of the church and especially
the History of the Twelve. I am taking up the Quorum from the
commencement, have been trying to write your History but I cannot do
justice to it at all without your assistance, and on the receipt of
this I wish you would write a sketch of your life and forward it
to me to this city, name your lineage or forefathers as far back as
you can get, with anything you know about them, and where you
was born and when, what your religion was before you embraced
the Gospel, where you was baptized and who by and all your
ordinations, and by whom ordained—an outline of all your missions.
Was you not in the war of 1812? What offices have you ever held
in church or state. I want you to give me the particulars of your
conversation with General Wilson the night you was taken prisoner
when he wanted you to betray Joseph, that was an important time
with you, and for that deed alone you shall have salvation; give
me an account of your going with Judge Higbee some 6 or 7 miles to
intercept a company of 40 men going I think to Jackson County also
of the 7 men armed, who chased you on a certain occasion, when you
leaped a ditch with your horse which the others could not leap, and
any incident of your life that should be preserved as History; please
