Letter from Daniel Harrington, 8 August 1887
Salt Lake City, .
Pres. Wilford Woodruff and
The Quorum of The Twelve Apostles:
Dear Brethren:
Agreeable to the wishes of the family
of the late Pres. John Taylor and also in response to a
desire on our part to see a proper biographical and chrono-
logical history of his life presented to the public we
have thought providing the matter meets your approval
and concurrence of publishing, at an early a day as possible,
a biograpy of his life, together with such contemporaneous
history, memoirs etc. as space and the scope of the
work will permit.
With reference to the propriety of the publication of such
a work, it is perhaps unnecessary for us to offer any
special argument; but it seems to us that the issuance
of such a work would fill a two or three-fold mission.
The people, we believe, would not only welcomely receive
any work which would properly recount the incidents
and lessons of the life of such a man as their late
