Salt Lake City,
Sept. 12. 1869.
Elder A. Carrington
42 Islington, Liverpool England.
Dear bro:-
President Young has drawn on you the following drafts since Aug. 24.
No L s d
1988 14 5 8 Jos. D. Smith
1991 9 18 0 Jno Neff
1989 10 0 0 Charles Crabtree
1992 5 10 0 Jesse Tye
1990 26 8 8 Saml. F. Adams
1993 12 8 6 Lorenzo Richins
1994 3 0 0 E. L. Butterfield
We have remitted altogether to bro Staines, Currency $23.500.00 and Coin $1200.00 and charged the same to your office. Staines is to send the money to you, hold it to your order, and account to you for it, just as tho you had sent it to him from Liverpool. Hence I charge Lpool Office said amounts. All the above money is to be, of course, credited to this office against the large amounts that the T. in T. is continually drawing for in the shape of drafts. You should not omit to duly credit this office with the $25,000.00 sent to you through the House of Cisco & Son in January last. There seems to be some misapprehension at your office about the use of the last mentioned sum, and you state that "no strictly authoritative" directions about "have yet been received" Well I will take the liberty to tell you. Whenever you receive money from this office, the same should be promptly credited to our account, and whenever you receive President Young's written order in the form of drafts, or otherwise, those amounts placed to the credit of this office, but not till such written order has been received. If you received no "strictly authoritative" directions you should not have disbursed it;-- I mean, in a business point of view. We cannot ever remit enough to meet our drafts if you apply the money, so sent, to other uses. In times that are past the President <at Lpool> has sent out the Lords poor, met the President's drafts, and furnished money to the Church in other ways without this office having to send money over to Lpool, but circumstances are different now, and we try to send you the money necessary to meet our drafts, inasmuch as the profits on the Independent Emigration & Tithing, of the British mission are notsufficient to do this
Before spending the $25.000. in assisting the poor of your own choosing, you might have wisely telegraphed for permission to do so, and you could have been put right in a moment. but doubtless all will "come out" right. We sent you the $25000.00 at that time because there was a very favorable opportunity to do so, and by <or before> the time said dft was cashed at Lpool, your office was, by your cash statement, some £2000. behind, and we were drawing on you every day, hence I never imagined that you would feel any necessity for its disbursement any faster than the arrival of the Presidents drafts. I plainly recognize the hand of the Lord in it however as doubtless you have helped out many who would not otherwise have come this year, and if we get cramped, when it could be avoided by telegraphing you, it is our own neglect, as much as any one's, and the money has been faithfully appropriated, but it would be well to keep duly advised in the future in relation to money matters. I will now give you list of money sent on your acct to W. C. Staines, New York.
Aug 3. 1869 Currency $4000
" 9 " " 5000
24 24 " " 2000
" 27 "
Sept 3 " " 2500. Coin
7 " " 5000 23.500.00 Total "
$1200.00
The companies have come through in good time, and with very remarkable success in the way of health, We have got an excellent Astronomical Transit set up in our little Observatory at the S. E.corner of the Temple Block and get the time with accuracy and brevity now, much more easily than with the Sextant
Your friend & brother,
T. W. Ellerbeck