The Brigham Young Center

G. S. L. City, Aug. 29, 1862.

Elder Dwight Eveleth,
San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Brother:

Your favor of the 18th inst. and the inclosed letter from Cap. Gibson to you came safely to hand, for which please accept my thanks, as also for your prompt payment of my draft on you in favor of Mr Reeves, for which, as you request, I inclose a certificate for the amount placed to your credit on your cash tithing in the General Tithing Office Record. That is as I understand your wish in the matter; if it is not as you desire please inform me, and I will arrange it in any other way you may prefer.

As there is no law against doing good, of course there can be no objection to persons voluntarily presenting offerings or donations for the Temple in nails, glass, cloth, clothing, money, or anything else that will bear transportation from there to this place and aid in completing a work so essential. An account of all such donations or offerings should be plainly kept in a book for that purpose, entering the date, name, kind of article, and amount, and being particular to write the names correctly and in full. You are hereby authorized to receive and record all donations or offerings that may be presented to you to the Temple, and hold them subject in advices from here from time to time.

As you are aware, Almerin Grow was long ago cut off from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and I thought it singular that anyone acquainted with him should feel to rebaptize him, as he was and is not a person fit to belong to this Church. However, I am informed that he has been re-baptized, but I presume was simply confirmed as a member without any ordination, for of course I most assuredly would not consent to have one ordained to the least authority in the priesthood whom I did not so much as deem worthy of being a member of the Church. Grow has at divers times proved himself to be a lying, slanderous, mischief making, pusilanimous vagabond, and the only plea I am aware of in his behalf, if there be any, would rest on the ground of insanity. He has no authority in this Church to so much as baptize, neither can he have with my consent; and how any one who has had a chance to become in the least degree acquainted with him could be deceived by him is another evidence that there is no accounting for some
tastes.

A Mr. W. H. H., Sharp, Tucker's Academy of Music, San Francisco, has written to me about Grow, and yesterday I wrote to him in reply, referring him to you for counsel and advice. But enough in one letter about so worthless an individual as Grow

Affairs in Utah are progressing as when last advised, the people continuing peaceful, prosperous and industrious, and being blest with the privilege of gathering abundant harvests.

Your Brother in the Gospel,

Brigham Young