Item Detail
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28388
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2
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0
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English
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To the Branches of the Relief Society
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Woman's Exponent
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13
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8
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Salt Lake City, UT
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61
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Officers and members of different Relief Societies often wrote to general president Eliza R. Snow for guidance. When her responses were delayed or untimely, some women felt hurt. She explained to an impatient correspondent, “There was nothing in the letter in question that specifically demanded an answer, and I have so many letters that must be answered.” One solution was to respond through the Woman’s Exponent, through which she could disseminate information not only to individual inquirers but to Relief Societies throughout the church. In the following Exponent article, Snow answered six questions regarding the administration of local Relief Societies. [The First Fifty Years of Relief Society]