Circular to the President of the YMMIA in wards, 1 November 1888
Salt Lake City, .
President Y.M.M.I.A.,
[blank] Ward:
Dear Brother:—We are pleased to announce that the preparation
of the First Year's Series of the M.I.A. Course of Reading has
so far progressed that orders will now be received for the books, which
will be ready for delivery between the 20th and 30th of the present
month.
In requesting the co-operation of yourself and fellow-officers to
introduce this Course of Reading, we feel assured that you will appre-
ciate the object had in view, and will cheerfully do what you can
reasonably to insure the success of the enterprise. If by this movement
we can induce a large number of our young people to spend a portion
of their time, this winter, in reading and studying, we will reap a rich
reward in the mental and moral improvement that will surely follow
among them.
We have authorized the issue of three thousand sets of these books,
and believing that the labor attending their preparation and publica-
tion could be most appropriately and satisfactorily performed by the
Contributor Company, we assigned this duty to Elder Junius F. Wells,
its Manager, and he has succeeded, under our immediate counsel and
direction, thus far, to our satisfaction. We therefore refer you to him
for all information relating to the business of the publication, and trust
you will, in your Association, do your part towards disposing of and
securing readers for the present edition.
Your brethren and fellow laborers,
WILFORD WOODRUFF,
JOSEPH F. SMITH,
MOSES THATCHER,
General Superintendency, Y.M.M.I.A.
