[end sideways text] BOARD OF TRUSTEES. A. O. SMOOT, President, H. H. CLUFF, W. H. DUSENBERRY, Joseph Marion Tanner|M. TANNER]], D. C. YOUNG, J. E. TALMAGE. PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE KARL G. MAESER, Principal Brigham Young Academy. Provo City, Utah, October 9, 1888 President Wilford Woodruff. Dear Brother, Enclosed please find draft for Circular, as you instruc- ted me to get it up, and also drafts for financial and statistical schedules. The eleven points of instruction have been presen- ting themselves to my mind for a long time as es- sential for the establishment of a systematic church- school organization. I have not been so painstaking in regard to the form of expression, as I have been concerning the ideas themselves, and Bro. Reynolds, having more experience in such work, can remodel them to your satisfaction. I have succeeded after much trouble of obtaining the services of Bro. Josiah Hickman, student of the Normal Postgraduating Class in this Academy, to fill the place of Bro. Greenwood at Fillmore, and have telegraphed Bro. Hinckley to that effect. Bro. Hickman is a married man, and has been practiced teacher for three years, giving great satisfaction. He is a faithful Latterday Saint, and will start for