also leave with you to decide as to what had best be
done with the "Historical Record," hereby offering its
title, list of subscribers, and the good will of the Saints
which it may have gained, as a free will donation to
the Church; and, if you accept of it, you may do with
it what you please. If it is continued by authority it has, I think, not a bad foundation to stand on; and if stopped,
I trust its mission hitherto have resulted in good, and
that sometime in the future it, or something similar,
may again see the light of day.
During the last 18 months I have received from the
Church $5000 per month (from the Tithing Office), it being
an allowance made in order to enable me ^to^ sustain my
family while gathering historical information concerning
the several Stakes of Zion etc. Not having access to the docu-
mentary history of the Church, I have deemed it unwise
to publish the information thus far gained; and I propose
to deliver the manuscripts to the Church historian, together
with a complete index to the history of Joseph Smith as
published in the "Millennial Star." tThis alone has cost me
month's of labor; and before I am through with my