Letter from Edward William Tullidge, 23 December 1888

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Letter from Edward William Tullidge, 23 December 1888
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    [sideways text] Dec 23 [18]88 E. W. Tullidge City Rc Jan 1 [18]89. attended to [end of sideways text] Salt Lake City, Dec 23rd, 1888. To President Wilford Woodruff and Quorum and the Presiding Bishops Dear Brethren, I address you relative to the second volume of Tullidge's Histories of Utah, which is a companion volume of the History of Salt Lake City. The book will contain the history of all the Northern Counties of Utah and also of Southern Idaho, as well as ...
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    Charles W. Penrose, founder of Northern Journalism, Richard Ballantyne, Aaron Farr, Moses Thatcher, Wm Budge, James H. Hart an Samuel Francis, ^Wm W. Cluff, D. H. Perery & Judge Eldridge^ and others of their class, so that this book of biographies (or supplement) will embody a vast amount of the history of the Church, our foreign missions, our emigration and pioneer work besides the building up of the cities ...
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    five thousand dollars, in traveling over all these counties gathering and writing their history. For a year and a quarter I had Bro Joseph Hall engaged at $100 per month, and all travelling and hotel expenses &c ^paid;^ and Elder James A. Little seven months at $75 and expenses. They were constantly from home traveling, collecting history and obtaining biographical matter, while I myself have been out most of the time of the last two and half years on this same work; which, gGiving me even a small wage ...
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    Historians and apostles yourselves, you will thoroughly understand the vastness of the subject and record of your own lives, and the cost to gather and bring all into book form independent of publishing. But, being anxious to write the history of Utah in the interest of the Mormon people, I started with this Northern Volume, designing next a Southern Volume; and so, with three volumes, magne brought up to date, magnificently illustrated with $20,000 of steel plates of the men who founded this Territory, Utah would have a published history not unworthy ...
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    and my magazines—the Western Galaxy the last— not unworthy of New York, Boston or London. Some of my efforts and enterprises may have been financially unwise; and perhaps I should not have undertaken any work of publishing with^out^ first having sufficient capital in the bank to take me through; but then I should never have published any book at all, not even the Life of Brigham Young. During the last fourteen years, since I commence the Life of Brigham Young, a strange ...
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    for $500, and the City 200 vols (wholesale) for $1000. These were sent to the best journals, libraries, universities and leading men of the nation. Thus has the History of Salt Lake City become a standard work in both England and America, in libraries and places where they will do good service to Utah and the Mormon people. Acknowledgements of the gift of the City and newspaper notices came often to the Mayor and the Author and doubtless to the President's Office. I enclose you some addressed ...