April 18, 1894
A stormy morning Prest G Q Cannon & H B Clawson
started this morning for New York to attend to busines
In company with J F Smith we visited the Temple and saw
the ordinances of the Endowments Performed for the first
time since the Dedication of the Temple The funeral of Henry McEwan was Attended to day
~ Thursday
19. Alford Lambourne called in the morning & showed us
plate of Big Cottton wood snow slide scenery for a Book
we went to the Temple at 2 oclok & had Prayers with
the Twelve Apostles Emma Dreamed of meeting Owen
~ Friday
20 I spent the day in the office Attending to Duties of the day
~ Saturday
21 I spent the day at home Assisted planting potatoes Not wise
~ Sunday
22nd Sunday spent the day at home reading was rather poorley
~ Monday
23 I called upon J. W Clawson the Artist who started to paint
my full likeness I spent 2 Hours with him then went to
the office met with Wm Rydalch He spoke of working in
the Temple for His dead freinds I received a letter from Owen to his Mother He manifests a Noble spirit He also
wrote to Asahel And I never saw a Better spirit in
a young missionary in my life than his Letters manifest
~ Tuesday
24 I received 2 letters from Wm McEwan and Cornelius Schettler they were both Excellent
Letters we also received a package of Photographs of
the five Missionaries who went as Missionaries
from Salt Lake including Owen we also got
near a Dozen single Likenesses of Owen I also wrote one Letter to Wm McEwan it is a warm plesant day
~ Wednesday
April 18, 1894
A stormy morning Prest G Q Cannon & H B Clawson
started this morning for New York to attend to busines
In company with J F Smith we visited the Temple and saw
the ordinances of the Endowments Performed for the first
time since the Dedication of the Temple The funeral of
Henry McEwan was Attended to day
~ Thursday
19. Alford Lambourne called in the morning & showed us
plate of Big Cotton wood snow slide scenery for a Book
we went to the Temple at 2 oclok & had Prayers with
the Twelve Apostles Emma Dreamed of meeting Owen
~ Friday
20 I spent the day in the office Attending to Duties of the day
~ Saturday
21 I spent the day at home Assisted planting potatoes Not wise
~ Sunday
22nd Sunday spent the day at home reading was rather poorley
~ Monday
23 I called upon J. W Clawson the Artist who started to paint
my full likeness I spent 2 Hours with him then went to
the office met with Wm Rydalch He spoke of working in
the Temple for His dead freinds I received a letter from
Owen to his Mother He manifests a Noble spirit He also
wrote to Asahel And I never saw a Better spirit in
a young missionary in my life than his Letters manifest
~ Tuesday
24 [FIGURE] I received 2 letters from Wm McEwan and
Cornelius Schettler they were both Excellent
Letters we also received a package of Photographs of
the five Missionaries who went as Missionaries
from Salt Lake including Owen we also got
near a Dozen single Likenesses of Owen I also wrote
[FIGURE] one Letter to Wm McEwan it is a warm plesant day
"Journal (January 1893 – April 1897)," April 18, 1894 - April 24, 1894, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 27, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/j00v