Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 2 July 1888
Provo City, Utah,
President Wilford Woodruff.
Dear Brother,
Your telegram, instructing me to withouthold my resigna=
tion for the present, was received last Friday evening, and your
letter of June 26, concerning Bro. Talmage's probable call to
the Salt Lake Academy, likewise the letter of June 29, in
answer to my note submitting to you copy of resignation,
were received Saturday morning.
In regard to the call of Bro. Talmage to the S. L. Stake Acade=
my, I have felt the wisdom of that move from the moment
that I was informed of it at our last meeting; but as then
no immediate prospects presented themselves of having that
plan put into execution, and the B. Y. Academy, after
my removal, needed some one to preside over it, it was
natural for me, to suggest the temporary arrangement,
which I took the liberty of laying before you; the more
so, as Bro. Benj. Cluff, for various reasons, would not be
well qualified to take charge of the institution, or any
other for that matter, immediately after his return.
The reason for my concern in regard to my re=
signation being handed in on June 30, was, that on that
