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Dec 9, 1879

Journal Entry

December 09, 1879 ~ Tuesday

9 I arose quite unwell to day. I spent most of the day reading
Hugh Blairs Lectures on Rhetoric & Bells Letters
which were quite interesting upon many Points. I had
company in the Evening I went to bed about 9 oclok feeling
vary bad in my lungs I was sick all night. my throat
and Lungs felt raw I had hard work to swallow I
could not raise but little and what I did was bloody

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Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)
9th I was quite unwell to day I spent most of the Day Reading Hugh Blairs Lectures on Rehetoric & Belles Letters which were quite interesting upon Many points I had [FIGURE] company in the Evening I went to bed about 9 oclok feeling vary bad in my Lungs I was sick all night my throat & Lungs felt raw I had hard work to swallow I could not raise but Little & what I did was quite Bloody

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1880
Church membership 135,000; Utah Territory 143,963; population of 38 United States 50,190,000.
January 26, 1880
Wilford receives Wilderness Revelation regarding God's defense of the patriarchal law of marriage.

Dec 9, 1879