Your letter of the 18th inst., announcing your conclusion to resign your position as president of the Brigham Young University to accept the position of manager of the Utah Mexican Rubber Company at Tobasco received attention at our regular Council meeting last Thursday. Your determination to leave the school was a great surprise, especially to the brethren the apostles who had received no intimation of it until hearing your letter read; and we may say that we ourselves would have fully shared the same feeling had it not been for the conversation you previously had with us on this subject; but notwithstanding this fact we were not fully prepared to reconcile ourselves to the belief that you could have seen your way ear to resign the honored position you had so long and faithfully filled for one entirely out of your line of experience and of an uncertain tenure besides. But we are pleased to inform you that the Council, while regretting your action, accepted of your resignation with sentiments of appreciation for your efficient labors as principal of the Brigham Young University, and with the best of feelings toward you personally, as well as the best of wishes for your success in your new field of labor, in which we ourselves heartily join.
[Source: First Presidency, Letter to Benjamin Cluff Jr.]
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