Letter from Karl Gottfried Maeser, 12 July 1888
Provo City, Utah,
President Wilford Woodruff.
Chariman Genl. Board of Education.
Dear Brother,
Immediately after my return to Provo, last Tuesday evening,
I reported to Bro. A. O. Smoot, President of B. Y. A. Board of Trustees,
the decision of the General Board of Education in regard to
my continuing for the present as Principal of the B. Y. Acad-
emy subject to the call of the General Board sooner or
later to assume the active duties of General Superintendent
of the Church schools, and that Bro. Talmage was to be
at once to be transferred to the Salt Lake Stake Academy,
^and that^ the Board of which would be instructed to make their
own financial arrangements with the Professor.
President Smoot received my communication with
satisfaction expressing the hope that I would not be called
away during the coming academic year. He appointed
at once Wednesday, July 11, evening, for the meeting of
the Board of the Academy. A Quorum being present
at the appointed hour, the points concerning Bro. Tal-
mage and myself, as stated above, were taken in the
mMinutes, the manuscript for the new Circular sub-
