Sept 14, 1881
[FIGURE] I attended the funeral of David John Taylor son
of President Taylor's who went to New Yog to buy goods
for Z.C.M.I. was taken suddenly sick & Died there
Aged 28 left a wife & 2 children Bishop Thomas Taylor Joseph F Smith W Woodruff & G Q Cannon
addressed the Meeting we had a large assembly
16 I met with the committee in the Historians office
on historical matters this committee was apointed
By the Presidency to examine into the labor work
and Business of the Historian office they were Joseph
F SmithF. M. Lyman & John Henry Smith they
sat untill 11 oclok & adjourned untill 4 oclok O Pratt was appointed Historian May 9, 1874,
making his labor as Historian for 7 years up to
May 7, 1881 During this time He has got up a history
documentary, for 22 years, Making 34 volums of 41,259
Pages, averaging 1213 1/2 pages each vol, at a cost of $12377.70
there was 54 pages of indexing for Each vol as title page,
making $400 per volumn including Binding, paper, ruling, pens
ink and indexing total $13,600. But none of this work
had been compared with its copy I spent the night at the farm
~ Saturday
17. I returned to the city G Q Cannon and myself set
apart 3 Missionaries I set apa[r]t one of them Wilford brought
3 wild Horses to the lot from a Band I went to the farm 6 M[iles]
~ Wednesday
Sept 14, 1881
[FIGURE] I attended the funeral of David John Taylor son
of President Taylor's who went to New Yog to buy goods
for Z.C.M.I. was taken suddenly sick & Died there
Aged 28 left a wife & 2 children Bishop Thomas TaylorJoseph F Smith W Woodruff & G Q Cannon
addressed the Meeting we had a large assembly
16 I met with the committee in the Historians office
on historical matters this committee was apointed
By the Presidency to examine into the labor work
and Business of the Historian office they were Joseph
F SmithF. M. Lyman & John Henry Smith they
sat untill 11 oclok & adjourned untill 4 oclok
O Pratt was appointed Historian May 9, 1874,
making his labor as Historian for 7 years up to
May 7, 1881 During this time He has got up a history
documentary, for 22 years, Making 34 volums of 41,259
Pages, averaging 1213 1/2 pages each vol, at a cost of $12377.70
there was 54 pages of indexing for Each vol as title page,
making $400 per volumn including Binding, paper, ruling, pens
ink and indexing total $13,600. But none of this work
had been compared with its copy I spent the night at the farm
~ Saturday
17. I returned to the city G Q Cannon and myself set
apart 3 Missionaries I set apart one of them Wilford brought
3 wild Horses to the lot from a Band I went to the farm 6 Miles
"Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)," September 14, 1881 - September 17, 1881, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 17, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/A63B