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Dec 18, 1894

Journal Entry

December 18, 1894 ~ Tuesday

18 We listened to the Report of the financial committee
of the Utah Company which seemed Hopeful
I Attended a meeting on the 17 with the ZCMI Board

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Salt Lake City, Utah, President Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother: During my travels in the interest of Church history during the last four years, including visits to the States, Mexico and Canada, I have expended considerable means in defraying traveling expenses. I have also worn out a buggy entirely, and another in part, on my journeyings, as I have visited quite a number of the Stakes traveling with my own conveyance. I have also employed a member of my family a great portion of the time to help me in my labors, which has enabled me in scores of instances to get through with certain work in a day when it otherwise would have taken two. I have not asked the Church to bear my traveling expenses so far, nor do I desire to ask for that to be done in the future, as long as I can possibly defray them myself; but

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Dec 18, 1894