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Day in the Life

May 1, 1898

Journal Entry

May 01, 1898 ~ Sunday

Sunday May 1st I do not feel very well to day, being somewhat
costive at home all day.

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Letter from Rasmus Andrew Rasmussen, 1 May 1898

Ferron Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother I received you letter of april th 20, and I am ready and wiling to go on a Mission when you want me. My health has not been very good lately, but I believe it will be, if I go on a Mission, It will not be much good that I can do perhaps perhaps,

Letter from Daniel William Hunsaker, 1 May 1898

Honyille, Brother Woodruf, Your call for myself and others to take a mission to the Northern States. I feal like responding to the call in my weak way and will be there on the day apointed if nothing hapens that I do not know of, I remain Your Brother in the Gospel D. Wm Hunsakr Thomas Wheatley Jr. Bp.

Letter from Ephraim Portman Pectol, 1 May 1898

Glenwood . President Wilford Woodruff, S. L. C. Dear Bro: With a faltering pen I address you at this time, perhaps on a strange, yet so delicate and important a subject that I hardly know how to approach it. I am a stranger to you but you are held dear to me as our leader and to you I appeal for council. The subject upon which I wish to ask for light and your

Letter from Frank Merrell, 1 May 1898

May 1st 1898 President Wilford Woodruff. Dear Brother. Yours of the 27 of April was received. I will say in regards to me taking a mission to Great Britain I will be on hand any day you mention, All being well. I remain Your Brother in the Gospel. Frank Merrell. In the absence of the Bishop I heartily endorse the above Your Brother Thomas. H. Blackburn ^Bp^ Councellor

Letter from George C. Wood, 1 May 1898

Willard City, Pres. Wilford Woodruff, Dear Brother, Your letter dated April 27, 1898, informing me of my mission to Great Britain, is received; and in answer will say, that I am willing to go and to do what I can in the mission. I am somewhat dissappointed, though, in the time set, as I had hopes to leave in the early part of June. I have heard that there is a company of missionaries to leave Salt Lake City for Great Britain on the 27th. of this month. Now, if there is no company going to Great Britain

Letter from George David Harding and Richard C. May, 1 May 1898

Logan City President Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother It being that our Nation is at present in trouble with a foreign Nation and that the President of the United States have called for five hundred volunteers from Utah. Is it or is it not the wish of the Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints for the young men of said Church to vVolunteer. We Richard May and George Harding are at present attending the Brigham Young College of Logan and will not complete our school course for two more years.

Letter from James Isaac Campkin, 1 May 1898

President Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother. Your letter of April 27 [18]98 was received and am willing to accept the call to take a mission to the Eastern States, will be at Historians office on 27 of May. James Campkin James Nielsen Sr Bishop

Letter from Joseph Reeder, 1 May 1898

Brigham City . President Woodruff Dear brother, I received yours of the 27th Inst and will try and be ready to start for my Mission at the time stated by you. Your brother Joseph Reeder A. A. Janson Bp. Third Ward. Brigham City

Letter from Peter Petersen, 1 May 1898

Brigham, City, Utah, Prest Wilford Woodruff Your Letter of the 27 Ult. stating that my name had been suggasted and ascepted as a missionary to Scandenavia, received. I feel my weakness and inelilty, but if you consider me worthy and capable to perform a mission I am willing to accept the Call, and shall andeavor to get ready by August 1898, as per your letter. Peter Petersen. A A Janson Bp. Therd ward Brigham City

Letter from Wilford Jenkins Cole, 1 May 1898

Nephi Utah Pres. Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Dear Brother: In reply to yours of the 27th will say. All being well we will be ready to leave Vancouver June 2nd. Please send instructions concerning tickets and passports. Your Humble Servant Wilford Cole Nephi Utah T. H. G. Parkes Bp. 2nd Ward Nephi Hand to Spence May 28,

Letter from William F. Tate, 1 May 1898

President Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Brother: My feelings towards going and per- forming a mission to the Southern States are of the best. Can say I am pleased to be considered worthy of such a call. I will go and do the best I can in pruning Gods vineyard and in bring- ing about His purposes here on earth. I have nothing to hinder me from going so will report for duty on the day appointed. Your Brother, William F. Tate. I do fully endorse the above. Thomas Atkin Bp

Events

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April 10, 1898
Wilford's Conference address on his 1877 vision of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

May 1, 1898