that she has written to her. We were glad to hear from so many of our Connecticut
Relations you spent about my not being able to Read your writing I have no difficulty
whatever in reading your writing not near as much as you will have in Reading mine
I do but vary little common Hand writing I am officiating as the (assistant) Historian of the
Church in compiling the History of the Church I have been Employed in this business
for some five years and I Employ clerks to do most of my writing I write all my daily
Journals in this hand and I do all my reporting in phonography I have reported more sermons
& done more Journal writing than any man in the Church and and a great Deal of the
Church History is made from my Journal. I have kept a Daily Journal for twenty
five years & I have Recorded in my Journal mostany off the sermons & teachings
that I have heard Joseph Smith the prophet & Brigham Young and it has been a
gift bestowed upon me that I could hear half a dozen sermons Delivered in
succession & go to my office & sit down next day and write most of them sentence by
sentence as they were Delivered and it is in consequence of this gift that I have been Employ as
the assistant Historian of the Church I have a great anxiety to preserve the History of the
church & kingdom of God esstablished upon the Earth in the last dispensation and
fulness of times for it is destined to become a mountain & fill the whole Earth
as Daniel saw it, and those things which have been prophesied of by Joseph
Smith 30 years ago are now being fulfilled day by Day. [Daniel 2:26-47] I wrote 25 years ago a
Revelation of Joseph Smith saying that a war would commence at the Rebelion of
South Carolina, that South Carolina would Rebel against the Government & that the
Southern States would rise up against the Northern States & the Northern States
would rise up against the Southern States to war & that the Southern States

that she has written to her. We were glad to hear from so many of our Connecticut Relations you spent about my not being able to Read your writing I have no difficulty whatever in reading your writing not near as much as you will have in Reading mine I do but vary little common Hand writing I am officiating as the (assistant) Historian of the Church in compiling the History of the Church I have been Employed in this business for some five years and I Employ clerks to do most of my writing I write all my daily Journals in this hand and I do all my reporting in phonography I have reported more sermons & done more Journal writing than any man in the Church and and a great Deal of the Church History is made from my Journal. I have kept a Daily Journal for twenty five years & I have Recorded in my Journal mostany off the sermons & teachings that I have heard Joseph Smith the prophet & Brigham Young and it has been a gift bestowed upon me that I could hear half a dozen sermons Delivered in succession & go to my office & sit down next day and write most of them sentence by sentence as they were Delivered and it is in consequence of this gift that I have been Employ as the assistant Historian of the Church I have a great anxiety to preserve the History of the church & kingdom of God esstablished upon the Earth in the last dispensation and fulness of times for it is destined to become a mountain & fill the whole Earth as Daniel saw it, and those things which have been prophesied of by Joseph Smith 30 years ago are now being fulfilled day by Day. I wrote 25 years ago a Revelation of Joseph Smith saying that a war would commence at the Rebelion of South Carolina, that South Carolina would Rebel against the Government & that the Southern States would rise up against the Northern States & the Northern States would rise up against the Southern States to war & that the Southern States