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Show DIOCESAN ARCHIVES UTAH HISTORICAL QUARTERLY papers of a Catholic lawyer, John Frederick Tobin. Tobin had been out of town for a period late in 1923, so a lawyer friend, Ira R. area of his home at 82 Laurel Humphrey, wrote to catch him up on the Street, Salt Lake City. This might news of his social circle in Salt Lake City. In a have been the site of the 1923 postscript, Humphrey offered the following poker game. explanation for a typographical error earlier in the letter: “The spelling of ‘guess’ in the second paragraph is due to the fact that I played poker last night until after three o’clock this morning with Heber J. Grant, Rev. Goshen, Bishop Glass and Charley Quickley.”34 The Salt Lake City directory reveals that Goshen served as pastor of the First Congregational Church and that a Charles Quigley (Humphrey’s typography was still unreliable) was a mine operator in the firm of Quigley and Welch. Is this letter credible? It challenges the imagination to picture the puritanical Grant sitting at a card table, coatless with necktie loosened, bluffing a pair of deuces. Of course, that ardent prohibitionist and strict observer of the LDS health code, the Word of Wisdom, would not have Bishop Joseph S. Glass standing on the staircase in the reception 34 Ira Humphrey to J. F. Tobin, December 15, 1923, J. F. Tobin Papers, Utah State Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. 244 |
