Letter from Richard Hanisch, 15 August 1888
Salt Lake City, .
President Wilford Woodruff, Esq.
Salt Lake City.
My dear brother:
If agreeable to you, I should
like to translate the Book of Mormon or any other
Church works you may see proper at first into the
Polish language and later into Russian. Since so
many Polish people live in the United States—Even at the
present time, in Rochester N. Y., there is a contemplation to build
a new Roman Catholic Church for Polish people, there are
already two in Buffalo, N. Y., and many Polish Churches in
Chicago, and besides a large Newspaper is in circulation
in the Polish language there—and since for the
benefit of Eastern Europe, namely in Poland and
Russia little or perhaps nothing has been done,
I put this matter before you for your consideration,
and would be very happy, if an opportunity
should be given to me to work for the benefit
of the Church in any way, you think best.
My oldest son, Richard, who has studied for
five years, and who will finish his education
