Autograph letter signed : Salt Lake City, to the Rev. Dr. Perry, 1870 Jan. 13.

Sending a report on a scholarship student; commenting on the Mormon community; saying "These Mormons are a very sincere & religious people-- (Always excepting some of the selfish, scheming leaders)--Very, very many are of English birth, & brought up in the Ch. of England, or among the Wesleyans. Scarcely an Irishman or Irishwoman is here, but abundance of Welsh, & not a few Scotch. The Lutherans of Sweden, Norway & Denmark (especially the last), next to the English, supply to Salt Lake most Mormon immigrants. I think the lethargy of the Ch. of England of 20 or 40 years ago was far more favorable to Mormon perversions, than is the present activity of the Mother Church with her more sympathizing & painstaking care of her poor children. It seems to me that the enthusiasm & fanaticism of the Mormon people are dying out. More & more the system is getting materialistic, gross, self-seeking, managed by cunning men in the interests of its hierarchy--I hardly know what now binds them together most strongly, but think it to be community of wrong doing (in re polygamy &c) & the fear & awe of breaking the dreadful oaths imposed upon them in the secret endowment house."