Letter from Frank Filber, 27 June 1891
Salt Lake City,
Wilford Woodruff Esq.
Pres't C. J. C. L. D. S.
City.
Dear Sir.
A relation of mine requested
me to ask you as the President of your Church
if you in your communications with mem-
bers & officials of your Organization would be
in need of a Cipher System. The party in
question has a system on which he & others have
been at work for about thirty years & it has
been pronounced as the most successful ever
gotten up. The system has been offer to the U. S.
Government, but the Government being supplied
with one could not make use of it, it has
however been said by Government officials that
it is shortest & most time saving they had seen.
Of course, this offer I should like to have you keep
in the strictest secrecy, as I am not a member
of your church & would not care to have anything
known about this matter. I should be exceedingly
