Excerpt from History of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Association: Of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints From November 1869 to June 1910 His, the history of the Young Ladies' Mutual Improve ment Association, is the first published history of the organized work of women in the Church The brief sketch suggested in 1900 by May Booth Talmage has naturally and insistently grown into the complete record of the develop ment of the organization herewith presented; and yet, the record tells only in outline all of the interesting and really wonderful work accomplished by the young women of the Church, in their attempts at Mutual Improvement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.