Letter from Grove Karl Gilbert, 4 March 1892
WASHINGTON, D. C. .
To the President of the Church of the Latter-Day Saints
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dear sir:
A letter has come to this office from Prof. A. Krassnoff
of the University of Kharkof, Russia, containing the following
inquiry:
"Can you not tell me whether there may be got anywhere in
Washington plans of the famous "Tabernacle" in Salt Lake City,
Utah, that is to say, plans or an exact description of this
wondrously fine hall. If these may be bought anywhere, please
write me where and when it may be done, and if it costs no more
than $50, I will at once send money there in order to get the
plans. It is intended to have a similar building erected in
Moscow, and I hope that you as an American will be pleased to
see an American invention on Russian soil."
Mr. Krassnoff is a distingished scientist whose works on
plant geography have a wide reputation. He attended the Inter-
national Congress of Geologists in Washington last August, and
afterward took part in the great geological excursion through
the West. It was on that occasion that the Tabernacle attracted
his attention.
