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May 9, 1889

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May 09, 1889 ~ Thursday

Thursday May 9th 1889
I signed 31 recommends. Recd 14 letters

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Letter from Christian Frederick Bernhard Lybbert, 9 May 1889
Pred: W Woodruff Dear Brother Your Kind communication of May 4th resived with mush joy. the Messeonaries from here started to day, after an ajoyableo time last night. Inclosed pleace find my Son Waldemar Cs Recomend; and a redy addressed Evolup. May Older sons name is Enoch C: Lybbert, his Preanition Right, is apleyed on our land, as I am made a non Sitizen (by the Edmond-Tucker law of /82.) if possible we wont to appley for our Patent this summer. with Kind Regards to You and Assosions C F B Lybbert
Letter to John Steele, 9 May 1888
Salt Lake City, U. T. . Elder John Steele, Toquerville. Dear Brother: Your letter of May 5th has been received, in which you set forth the expressed wishes of your sister, made before her death and after your explaining to her the true order of marriage and of adoption of her children, to be sealed to you for eternity, instead of to her husband; and if that was not ad- missible, that she be sealed to your son, M. M. Steele. You also rsay "I told her I did not know how that would be; such things had been done, but I did not know how it would be again." Of course, I am not econversant with what information you may have on this subject; but I am not aware of any such sealings or adoptions in this Church. I do not consider it proper for any such sealings or adoptions to be administered in the Temples of the Lord. It is not any more proper for your sister to be sealed to you as her husband, now that she is dead, than it would be if she were alive; neither should she be sealed to your son, because such a marriage is too near of

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May 9, 1889