Letter to Karl Gottfried Maeser, 24 August 1888
Salt Lake City, Utah, .
Professor Karl G. Maeser,
Dear Brother:
The news that you write to me about the opening of your
Academy and the good prospect that you have for a numerous attendance of pupils
is very gratifying.
Brother Alma Greenwood came to the City but I was not able to see him;
he had an interview, however, with Brother George Reynolds, Secretary of the Board, who
was able to give him the information upon the points he needed.
As to the application of Brother Stewart for you to furnish the principal
for the Church Academy to be started in Mexico I know nothing. It would be well for
him, if he has any propositions to make, to address the General Board of Education upon
the subject so that whatever is done may be done understandingly.
In an interview with Brother Hart he mentioned the case of Brother Hanisch
and informed us that he had been invited to teach at the Salt Lake Academy. We did
not get any hint from him that Brother Hanisch had been sent for by the Bear Lake
Stake people with the view of employing him there. If we had we might not have sug-
gested the course that we did. We thought that he had gone up there on a private
