Memorandum from J. Reuben Clark explaining how the First Presidency came in possession of the Taylor Revelation.
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J. Reuben Clark, Memorandum, July 18, 1933, MS 303, Box 349, Folder 3, J. Reuben Clark Papers, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
- People
- Nellie Taylor, John W. Taylor, John Taylor, J. Reuben Clark, Frank Y. Taylor, Anthony W. Ivins, Heber J. Grant
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July 18, 1933.
This paper came into the possession of the First Presidency in the following manner:
After the issuance of the Official statement of June 17, 1933 by the First Presidency, covering the matter of pretended polygamous or plural marriages, President Ivins stated to Presidents Grant and Clark that a report had come to him that Sister Nellie Taylor, one of the plural wives of John W. Taylor, was affirming that she had found among the papers of her husband, John W. Taylor, after his death, a paper on which was something written in the handwriting of President John Taylor. Sister Taylor stated that she had turned over this paper to Brother Frank Y. Taylor.
President Grant spoke to Frank Y. Taylor about the matter, and the latter stated that he had no recollection of ever having seen the paper but that if such a paper existed and had been given to him, he could easily find it as he knew just where he would have placed it.
About July 15, 1933, Frank Y. Taylor brought to President Grant the attached paper encased in the envelope which is attached to the paper.
The date written on the back of the second sheet is the date of John Taylor's death and was written by President Grant on July 17, 1933.
[Two copies of the Taylor revelation]
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