Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718; Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 18, 30–31.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 48–55.
Bitton, David, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Letter from Heber C. Kimball, 9 July 1840. With his mission in England extended and having learned that his family was ill, in mid-1840 Pratt sailed to New York and escorted his wife, children, and sister-in-law across the Atlantic to be with him during the remainder of his mission. (Pratt, Autobiography, 342–343; Woodruff, Journal, 7 July 1840.)
Pratt, Parley P. The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry and Travels, with Extracts, in Prose and Verse, from His Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Parley P. Pratt Jr. New York: Russell Brothers, 1874.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff, Journal, 20 Apr. 1841; Letter from Orson Hyde, 17 July 1841.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“An Epistle of the Twelve,” Millennial Star, Apr. 1841, 1:311.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Proclamation, 15 Jan. 1841; Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:26–27].
“The Temple of the Lord,” Times and Seasons, 1 July 1841, 2:455.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
At the time, Parley P. Pratt’s household included his wife, Mary Ann Frost Pratt; his wife’s sister, Olive Frost; his stepdaughter, Mary Ann Stearns, age eight; his two sons, Parley Parker Pratt Jr. and Nathan Pratt, ages four and three, respectively; and his daughter, Olivia Pratt, age six months. (Pratt, Autobiography, 343; “Records of Early Church Families,” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, July 1936, 106, 109.)
Pratt, Parley P. The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry and Travels, with Extracts, in Prose and Verse, from His Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Parley P. Pratt Jr. New York: Russell Brothers, 1874.
Bradford, Stella Paul. “David Pettegrew.” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 4 (1913): 175–180.
The June 1841 issue of the Millennial Star, the Saints’ newspaper in England, published the minutes of a 6 April 1841 celebration during which the cornerstones of the Nauvoo temple were laid. During the celebration, Sidney Rigdon optimistically said that the Saints would be “soon completing the edifice,” which may have led Pratt to believe that the temple’s construction was further along than it was. (“Latest from America,” Millennial Star, June 1841, 2:26.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Pratt wrote a letter to JS on 24 October 1841 encouraging the building of the temple. Addressing the temple building committee, he stated, “Let not your hands be slack, nor your hearts be fe[e]ble; but drive the temple ahead in the name of the Lord god of Israel; for thus the Spirit whispers in my heart, they shall not lack, nor be left in embarasment.” In another letter, Pratt relayed to church leaders that although the English Saints were “extremely anxious to do something for the temple,” their money was “swallowed up in emigration.” (Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 24 Oct. 1841; Parley P. Pratt, Manchester, England, to “the Authorities and Members of the Church,” Nauvoo, IL, 12 Aug. 1841, in Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:625.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Missionaries commonly commented on the ongoing economic depression in England. For example, Heber C. Kimball explained that in Liverpool he encountered “the rich attired in the most costly dresses, and the next moment was saluted with the cries of the poor without covering sufficient to screne them from the weather; such a distinction I never saw before.” (Thompson, Journal of Heber C. Kimball, 15; see also Letter from Brigham Young and Willard Richards, 5 Sept. 1840.)
Thompson, Robert B. Journal of Heber C. Kimball an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Nauvoo, IL: Robinson and Smith, 1840.
On 16 April 1840 the Quorum of Twelve resolved “that we recommend no one to go to America that has money with out assisting the poor according to our council from time to time.” (Woodruff, Journal, 16 Apr. 1840.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
On 15 December 1840 JS wrote a letter to the Quorum of Twelve in which he included details on the prices of goods in Nauvoo. JS noted that “provisions are much lower than when you left. Flour is worth about four dollars per barrel, corn 20 cents per bushel; Pottatoes about 20 cents. and other things in about the same proportion.” (Letter to Quorum of the Twelve, 15 Dec. 1840.)