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 in the interest of the Mormon people,
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 to live. No mere
publisher, as a financial venture, could publish 3 such volumes
with a limited circulation: the steel plates alone requiring a
capital of twenty thousand dollars. But I have been backed
with the money and friendship of great, generous men; and
the steel plates, like my histories, have been the accumulations
of years. I scarcely need tell you this, as the money of President
, have and , Wilford Woodruff, , , , , and many others of your own class, with
, , and monied men of the Gentiles have
so greatly helped me in my work.
This work of writing these histories of Utah and the
Mormon people has not been, with , a mere
a author's effort for fame and bread, nor a publisher's
speculation. It has been regarded by me from the onset—
even before Franklin Richards called me to the Millennial
Star Office thirty three years ago—as the work and mission
of my life, to help to create for the Mormon people a worthy
national literature, of a semi-Hebraic type, corresponding
with the genius and history of our people. Hence my historyies
my plays of , , , ,
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 in the interest of the Mormon people,
I started with this Northern Volume, designing next a
Southern Volume; and so, with three volumes,
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 to live. No mere
publisher, as a financial venture, could publish 3 such volumes
with a limited circulation: the steel plates alone requiring a
capital of twenty thousand dollars. But I have been backed
with the money and friendship of great generous men; and
the steel plates, like my histories, have been the accumulations
of years. I scarcely need tell you this, as the money of President
, , Wilford Woodruff, , , , , and many others of your own class, with
, , and monied men of the Gentiles have
so greatly helped me in my work.
This work of writing these histories of Utah and the
Mormon people has not been, with , a mere
author's effort for fame and bread, a publisher's
speculation. It has been regarded by me from the onset—
even before Franklin Richards called me to the Millennial
Star Office thirty three years ago—as the work and mission
of my life, to help to create for the Mormon people a worthy
national literature, of a semi-Hebraic type, corresponding
with the genius and history of our people. Hence my historyies
my plays of , , , ,