Letter from Achilles Adolph Ramseyer, 12 October 1895
Salt Lake city,
President Wilford Woodruff
Dear Brother—Permit me please to lay
before you the trouble I am subject to from
the part of the Deseret News Co. They are selling
the Encyclopedia Britannica by installment,
and some time ago I went to their Educational
Department (where they sell the sets) and I signed
an application for a set to be delivered at my
convenience; I did not want to sign any paper
to that effect, but they said that they might
not have any set when I should want one,
as they were going so fast, and so I signed
what they called an application, but now they
claim it was a contract. Last Monday I went
down to cancel my order ans I was not and
am not in position to take the set, and asked
to see my application, which was handed to
me; I then tore it. Now they want me to
take the set and delivered it to my wife
afterwards who not knowing what it was, si-
gned a receipt for it. They have filed a com-