Footnotes
JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841 and 21 Dec. 1842; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“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
Woodruff, Journal, 14 June 1842.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 14 June 1842.
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
Parley P. Pratt and Thomas Ward, “Tithings for the Temple,” Millennial Star, Oct. 1842, 3:112.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
In March 1842, Clark purchased the east half of lot 1 in block 147 in Nauvoo from JS and Emma Smith for $500. (Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 1817–1917, vol. 20P, p. 320, 10 Mar. 1842, microfilm 954,602, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
Parley P. Pratt, “To the Saints in Europe,” Millennial Star, Oct. 1842, 3:110.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Fielding does not appear to have had any official position at this time. The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles had stipulated that Clark was to “take charge of the Emigration in England instead of Amos Fielding.” Fielding, on the other hand, was to go to England only long enough to retrieve his family and then “come immediately” to Nauvoo. Disregarding these instructions for some unknown reason, Fielding had remained in Liverpool and continued to assist Clark in supervising emigration. Evidently in response to Fielding’s disregard for these instructions, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles voted during a May 1843 meeting “that elder Amos Fielding come immediately to Nauvoo or be cut off from the church.” (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 14 June 1842 and 11 May 1843; Woodruff, Journal, 14 June 1842; “Emigration,” Millennial Star, May 1843, 4:14–16.)
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Clayton, Journal, 17 Apr. 1843; JS, Journal, 17 Apr. 1843. Assuming that these were the funds Clark forwarded, it is unclear what happened to the additional twelve pounds eight shillings that Clark had sent to JS with Pratt. Clayton entered the fifty-pound donation into the Book of the Law of the Lord on or shortly after 18 April 1843. For some unknown reason, he later canceled the contribution. (Book of the Law of the Lord, 300.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
By this time, Pratt had likely booked passage to the United States on the Emerald, which departed Liverpool on 29 October. (News Item, Millennial Star, Feb. 1843, 3:175.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
By the end of October 1842, a temporary floor had been laid in the temple. The Saints held their first meeting there on 30 October. (Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 32.)
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Despite efforts to urge the Saints to be more committed in their efforts to build the Nauvoo House during this period, little progress had been made on the structure by October 1842. (See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 25 Feb. 1843; Smith, “Symbol of Mormonism,” 114–128; and Godfrey, “Monument of the Saints’ Industry,” 132–133.)
Smith, Alex D. “Symbol of Mormonism: The Nauvoo Boarding House.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 35, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2015): 109–136.
Godfrey, Matthew C. “A Monument of the Saints’ Industry: The Nauvoo House and the Council of Fifty.” In The Council of Fifty: What the Records Reveal about Mormon History, edited by Matthew J. Grow and R. Eric Smith, 131–140. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2017.
The Book of the Law of the Lord includes an entry that reads “received of Hiram Clark 50 Gold Sovereigns value $242.” These sovereigns were likely the funds that Clark had forwarded to JS through Pratt. (Book of the Law of the Lord, 300, canceled text in original.)
An 1842 description of Nauvoo’s city lots listed Clark as owning property in block 147, lot 1. This was presumably the Nauvoo residence of Clark and his wife, Thankful Gill Clark, at the time of this letter, as an 1842 census of Nauvoo wards listed them as being members of the Nauvoo Fourth Ward. (“Abstracts Containing a Description of All City Lots,” 1842, White Purchase, block 147, lot 1, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Platt, Nauvoo, 79.)
Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845. CHL.
Platt, Lyman De. Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, 1839–1846. Vol. 1. Highland, UT, 1980.
The Nauvoo temple committee was occasionally referred to simply as “the building committee.” (See, for example, Minutes, 7–11 Apr. 1841; Reynolds Cahoon, Alpheus Cutler, and Elias Higbee, to JS, Receipt, 12 Apr. 1841, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU; and Alpheus Cutler et al., “To the Churches Abroad and Near By,” Times and Seasons, 1 Sept. 1842, 3:909.)
This is possibly a reference to Simeon A. Dunn, who owned property in block 140, lot 1, north of Clark’s property in block 147, lot 1. Both Clark and Dunn were listed as members of the Nauvoo Fourth Ward in 1842. (“Abstracts Containing a Description of All City Lots,” 1842, White Purchase, block 140, lot 1, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Platt, Nauvoo, 80.)
Nauvoo, IL. Records, 1841–1845. CHL. MS 16800.
Platt, Lyman De. Nauvoo: Early Mormon Records Series, 1839–1846. Vol. 1. Highland, UT, 1980.
George Miller later recalled that “a great deal of the lumber” that had been obtained through “toil and sacrifice” for the temple and the Nauvoo House had been used for other purposes, including building private homes in Nauvoo. Miller stated that the “Temple Committee said that the workmen must needs have houses” and had accordingly become “house builders.” (George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 27 June 1855, in Northern Islander, 23 Aug. 1855, [1].)
Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.