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Show Salt Lake City, Oct. 29th, 1900 <br><br> To the Trustees of Sheldon Jackson College. <br> Your committee, appointed to consider the matters discussed in conference with Dr. Sheldon Jackson, at the meeting of the Trustees last Saturday evening, and to recommend some definite course of action hereby make the following report for your consideration and adoption: <br> In view of the self-sacrificing efforts of Dr. Jackson toward the establishment of a college in Salt Lake City, manifested in providing for the salary and traveling expenses of President Eaton for about four years, and especially on the giving, (as he has stated to us) of the most valuable* 2 pieces of real estate** part of his property to the college, when nobody else was ready to give anything - <br> In view of the fact that this decisive action on the part of Dr. Jackson College* resulted in <br><br><br> * The following asterisked phrases are crossed out by author: "the most valuable", "College", "the offer", "as he says", "he fully expected", "(but which together…in Washington)", "therefore, with the…September 1st, 1901.", "valuable property" <br> ** handwritten inserts in pencil while the rest of the document is handwritten in ink. <br><br> |