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Feb 26, 1889

Journal Entry

February 26, 1889 ~ Tuesday

26 [FIGURE] I signed 22 Recommends. I received 21 Letters
I wrote ^10^ Letters 9 Public & to Broadhead I went to the farm 6 m[iles]

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Woodruff Farm, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Letter from Canute Peterson, 26 February 1889
Ephraim, President Wilford Woodruff, Dear Brother:– Bro. Fredrick Jensen Holt, of Ephraim desires to go back to Denmark as a miss- ionary, both to preach and also to obtain his geneology, as far as he can. His age is sixty-four past, not much calculated to preach. He is a widower, two daughters, but both are married, means very limited. He is an inoffensive good Later-day Saint. His most ardent desire to go back is to obtain his genology as he is the only one of the family. I have rather discouraged him little and advised him to obtain ^it^ through brethren who are already there in the field, and that he might defray the expenses for the same. He feels (over)
Letter from William Jasper Henderson, 26 February 1889
Cannonville President Woodruff Dear Brother your favor of the 16 i[n]st has been received notifying me that I was needed as a missio- nary in reply I will say with the help of the lord I will be an hand at the apointed time and place always praying for the wellfair of Zion I remain your Brother Wm J Henderson Bishop OK L J n
Letter to James O. Broadhead, 26 February 1889
Hon. James O. Broadhead, St. Louis. My dear friend: I feel it my duty, as also a pleasure, to communicate a few lines to you. My short acquaintance with you has been of the most pleasing and satis- factory nature. Whatever the final result of our affairs may be in the courts, I feel to acknowledge the hand of the Lord in that you came into our employ and were associated with us in our important suit with this great government. I have looked forward with much interest for a copy of your argument before the U. S. Supreme Court and did not receieve one until last evening. Being somewhat weary with business, I retired to rest, leaving the argument to be read in the morning; but I could not sleep, and at midnight I arose, lit my lamp, sat at the table, and read your argument through. I became convinced, for the first time, that the U. S. Supreme Court could not consistently confiscate our property, real or personal, for I cannot see any ground whatever left for the court to work upon to sustain them in such an action, notwithstanding the great amount of

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Feb 26, 1889