Letter from Charles C. Bonney, 18 November 1893
CHICAGO,
Reverend Presidents
Wilford Woodruff,
George O. Cannon,
Joseph F. Smith,
of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Gentlemen:
Your communication of July 10th 1893 came duly to hand and
received considerate attention. A reply in writing would have
been sent to you in due course but for the fact that Elder B. H.
Roberts of your Church, called upon me and personally undertook to
convey to you a more full and satisfactory oral reply than could
be well committed to paper in a midst of the great pressure of the
World's Congress Work.
I thought he understood my position and that of Rev. Dr. John
Henry Barrows, Chairman of the General Committee on Religious Con-
gresses, and I also thought he concurred in that position. I was
therefore very much surprised when I saw in the newspapers, without
any previous complaint on his part, a lengthy letter of censure of
the action taken by Dr. Barrows and myself. As that letter was
published in the newspapers without presentation to me or to Dr.
