Letter from Moses Thatcher, 4 September 1888
Dear Presidents
Woodruff and Smith
Yours of the 30th
ult at hand and Contents notid. I will
write to brother Junius F. Wells and request
him to submit to you Statement of means
needed in order to Carry into effect what
we have already proposed in the interest
of the Improvement Associations.
I am aware of the Strained Condition of
our financial affairs, due to the causes
mentioned by you; and have no wish
to urge the payment of the appropriation
named in my last; or indeed any part
of it. But realize at the same time, the
imsatisfactory position we would be placed
in as the General Superintendency of the As-
sociations, should Brother Wells make the
necessary orders for books and the furnishing
of others not get issued, and then find
us unable to furnish the funds with
