Dear Bro, Owen Dunn of
this Place has been called on a mission to the Samoan
Islands, time set to leave Feby 3rd 1894. George Atkin
one of the Presidents of the 43rd Quorum of Seventies to
which Bro Dunn Belongs, came to me yesterdy and
asked if I would write to you and say that
since he receivd his Notice he has been making
all preparations for going & fullfilling his mission
but some unexpected conditions have arisen in
regard to his family & finnances that compel him
to ask you to excuse him from going untill next
July.
Dear Bro, Owen Dunn of
this Place has been called on a mission to the Samoan
Islands, time set to leave Feby 3rd 1894. George Atkin
one of the Presidents of the 43rd Quorum of Seventies to
which Bro Dunn Belongs, came to me yesterdy and
asked if I would write to you and say that
since he receivd his Notice he has been making
all preparations for going & fullfilling his mission
but some unexpected conditions have arisen in
regard to his family & finnances that compel him
to ask you to excuse him from going untill next
July.
"Letter from Hugh Sidley Gowans, 26 January 1894," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 29, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/my33