[William Clayton Journal] President Young having slept in the Temple last night, was early at his post, and dictating in relation to the business of the day, and arranging the workmen in order &c. &c. after which he listened to a reading from Captain Fremont's Journal by Franklin D. Richards...The morning was a very beautiful one, the sun shining clear and bright, through the east window of the room in which the party were assembled. President Young's son Joseph was present also having slept with his father. Amasa Lyman came in during the reading, also Elder H. C. Kimball, at a quarter to 10. The reading was finished at 10 o clock, at which time Miss Eliza R. Snow handed in a list of the females washed this morning, which lists she has taken for several days past...President Young left the Temple about half past 4 o clock to be absent for the night.
At 5 o clock a meeting was held in Elder Kimball's room, present H. C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, P. P. Pratt, Amasa Lyman, George A.
Smith, John Taylor, W. W. Phelps and George Miller. Clothed in priestly apparel, they offered up thanks to God and asked for the health of Bishop Whitneys child, also Elder Kimball's, and that God would away the wrath of this government from us and overrule all things for our good. Elder Kimball being mouth.
564 Persons have passed through, 95 this day.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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