First Presidency sends Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt on mission to collect church records; Orson Pratt is aware of papyri being in Wood's Museum, suggests effort be made to get them.
- Type
- Manuscript
- Hearsay
- Scribed ParaphraseReprint
- Reference
First Presidency Minute Book, September 2, 1878, in H. Donl Peterson, The Story of the Book of Abraham: Mummies, Manuscripts, and Mormonism (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995), 219–220
- Scribe/Publisher
- Deseret Book, H. Donl Peterson
- People
- First Presidency, Wilford Woodruff, Orson Pratt, George Q. Cannon, John Taylor, Albert Carrington, Joseph F. Smith
- Audience
- N/A
- Transcription
An informal meeting of the Council was held after Elders Orson Pratt and Joseph F. Smith had been set apart for their mission to the United States. Present—Pres. John Taylor and Elders Wilford Woodruff, Orson Pratt, George Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith and A. Carrington.
Brother Orson Pratt spoke of the desirability of obtaining the mss. of the Books of Abraham and Joseph now in Woods Museum, Chicago.
Brother Taylor considered it to be well to do so though he thought it would be well not to appear too anxious, or advantage might be taken if such a feeling were manifested. He felt that anything that would throw light upon the subjects, embraced in the mission of Bros. Pratt and Smith should be encouraged.
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