Microfilm of 30 letters sent by Wilford Woodruff to William Atkin between March 18, 1889, and February 12, 1894. The majority of them are on letterhead of the President's Office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City (many of the letters are typed, but others appear to be in the handwriting of Lewis Allen). In addition to family news and various church notes, the letters include references to "getting a state government for Utah" and the prospects of Utah statehood, the release of George Q. Cannon and Woodruff from prison on polygamy charges, Woodruff and Cannon's mission trip to California, local elections, flooding of the Rio Virgin, and the "water question" for the St. George Temple. There is also one letter addressed to J.D.T. McAllister (January 7, 1892). On the same reel (frames 69-138) as MFILM 378 (item 1), letters from Lewis Allen to William Atkin. All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1954. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Wilford Woodruff Sr. (1807-1898), fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was born in Hartford County, Connecticut. He moved to New York in 1832 and joined the Mormon Church. By 1835 he had moved to Missouri and served on a mission to Arkansas and Tennessee, and in 1837 served on a mission to Maine's Fox Islands. After serving on the British mission in 1839, Woodruff joined the vanguard exploration of the Mormon Trail to Utah in 1847. He served in the Utah territorial legislature from 1851-1876 and was Church historian from 1856-1889. In 1877 he became president of the St. George Temple, and was ordained president of the Church in 1889. Woodruff died in San Francisco in 1898.
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