Letter from Horace Gibson Whitney, 24 November 1894
President Wilford Woodruff
City.
Dear brother,
I have deferred until
the present time answering your
esteemed favor of the 8th inst. in which
you notify me that my name has
been suggested for a mission to
California and ask what my feelings
are in regard to the call—owing
to the fact that I desired, if possible,
to so arrange my affairs that I
could accept the call in acknowledging
receipt of the notification: for of my
willingness to go, if it were a question
of willingness alone, I believe you do
not need to be assured
The difficulties which I have
met with in trying to bring my
