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Day in the Life

Mar 13, 1888

Journal Entry

March 13, 1888 ~ Tuesday

13 [FIGURE] I signed 20 Recommends I received 22 Letters
I wrote 34 Letters 30 Public & 4 Private to Jaques, Sarah
Mary & Lucy W I spent the day in council

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Jaques, John
7 Jan 1827 - 1 Jun 1900
439 mentions
Woodruff, Lucy Emily
10 Jan 1869 - 5 Nov 1937
65 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Mary, b. 1867
26 Oct 1867 - 15 Feb 1903
163 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
694 mentions
Family

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Letter to Lucy Emily Woodruff, 13 March 1888

Salt Lake U. T. Miss Lucy Woodruff My Dear Grand Daughter I receeved your kind Letter of March 9. I read it with much interest I was vary glad to hear from you but was sorry that you were so afflicted with a sore Mouth. I will now say it has not been for the want of a Desire that I have not visited you or Brothr & Sister ^Smith^ but I have been so over whelmed with public business and had to attend meetings with the Twelve & othr bodies almost Day & night that I have not been able to visit any of my friends this Winter ownly in the Midst of a croud of [Remarks] I shall try to call some

Letter from Elizabeth Jefford Drake Roundy, 13 March 1888

Salt Lake City, March 13 th 1888 Pres. W. Woodlruff, Dear Brother I now take the liberty of making known the buisness for which I asked permission to see you some weeks since, I have suffering from the effects of sickness or should have written you earlier I have been trying for some years to get my family records, when I left England and some thirty years ago, we were not told of the necessity to gather the records of our dead relatives. As soon as I learnt of the duties devolving upon me I being the only one on either fathers, or mothers side, that have embraced

Letter to Joseph Fielding Smith, 13 March 1888

Salt Lake City, U. T. . Elder Joseph F. Smith, Washington, D. C. Dear Brother Joseph F.: Your esteemed favor of the 7th inst. has just been received, containing a state- ment of the amount of funds left in the hands of Brother John T. Caine, and many particulars which are very interesting to us concerning your movements there. We are not surprised at what we hear from you respecting the action of Brother John W. Young; but we regret very much that he should feel to draw off or to be wounded at the course that we have taken with him. We can only repeat

Letter to Sister, 13 March 1888

This letter is a portion of one written to Sister Isebel M Horn. Answering some questions she had asked also concering her going to obtain her geneology Respecting the washing and anointing the sick sisters I send you a copy of a letter by myself uppon this subject which will give you I think the needful information As to the covering of the bod deceased sister faces with the vail when they are prepared for burial We think it quite proper that they should be drawn over the face

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Mar 13, 1888