Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 22 June 1888
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
A. O. SMOOT, President,
H. H. CLUFF,
W. H. DUSENBERRY,
M. TANNER,
D. C. YOUNG,
J. E. TALMAGE.
KARL G. MAESER,
Principal
PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE
Brigham Young Academy.
Provo City, Utah, June 22, 1888
President Wilford Woodruff.
Dear Brother,
Immediately after my return to Provo last week I reported
in duty bound my appointment to the general supervision of
the church schools to President A. O. Smoot. Although regretting
my recall from the B. Y. Academy he felt to sustain your
action in the matter, only being deeply concerned about my
successor. In conferring after this interview with Bro. James
E. Talmage, who had just returned from his wedding trip to
Manti, I found him entering with heart and soul into
the movement and placing himself unreservedly at your
disposal. Then I told him of the plans in contemplation
concerning him, that he probably may be called to the
Salt Lake institution to take charge of the Scientific
Department there. As the teachers of the B. Y. Academy,
with whom also I have held a meeting, have not
sufficient confidence in the ability of Bro. Benj. Cluff
to take charge at once as Principal of the B. Y. Academy,
and the present frame of mind of Bro. Cluff in regard
to his coming home just now is not known, (he
does not think himself safe for a year or two longer)
