... By direction of Pres[iden]t John Taylor I mail to you two copies of the Revelation asked for in your letter of Feb. 4th 1883. And in reply to your 2nd question: Can you receive Second Anointings for your Brother David R. Crosley who died in the faith? Yes. Also in answer to your 3rd question, Can we receive Second Anointings for our dead fathers and mothers and others who we are proxy for? If your fathers and mothers were members of the Church in their lives and died as faithful members, Yes you can obtain Second Anointings for them, but if they and others who you are proxy for were NOT members of the Church in their lives, and for whom you have had certain ordinances performed in their behalf, it will be well to let that suffice for the present, as further opportunities may be granted hereafter.
[Source: L. John Nuttall to J. Crosley, Feb. 6, 1883, as quoted in Anderson, Devery; The Development of LDS Temple Worship, 1846-2000: A Documentary History, http://amzn.to/TempleWorship]
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