1862 1862 Has past and left its trace upon the Historians Record. It has been a vary important year it has fulfilled the Historians predictions & the predictions of the prophets (see the last page of this record written ithe last day of Dec 1861) There has been more blood shed, & lives lost in the United States in the battles between the North & South in 1862 than there was in the Revolutionary war & the war of 1812 with Great Brittian. The ...

G. S. L. City July 1 1857 Brother Lyman Wight Dear Sir I take the liberty of addressing a few lines to you for various reasons, one is for old acquaintance sake, and another for the purpose of making a request of you, and upon this subject I will write first, it is this. During the last year I have been engaged in writing the History of the church and especially the History of the Twelve. I am taking up the Quorum from the commencement, have been trying to write your ...