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.
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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.
“Go-ahead principle” was a common motto in Great Britain and the United States during the mid-nineteenth century. One author of the period attributed the saying’s popularity to James Watt, inventor of the steam engine. The motto took on a particular appeal among Americans, as “go ahead!” became “the Yankee’s watchword.” The phrase was popular among early Latter-day Saints. (“Go Ahead!” Eliza Cook’s Journal, 20 Mar. 1852, 334–335; see also Letter from Brigham Young and Willard Richards, 5 Sept. 1840; Letter to William Clayton, 7 Oct. 1842; and JS, Nauvoo, IL, to James Arlington Bennet, Arlington House, Long Island, NY, 17 Mar. 1843, Simon Gratz Autograph Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.)
Eliza Cook’s Journal. London. 1849–1854.
In September or October 1842, the Liverpool Albion reported that the emigration of Latter-day Saints from Liverpool was “daily increasing.” The paper then stated that those emigrating were “in appearance and wor[l]dly circumstances, above the ordinary run of steerage passengers,” with the majority of them consisting of “farmers and farmers’ servants, with their wives and families.” Confused by both the scope of the emigration and the social status of the emigrants, the Albion, as reprinted in the Freeman’s Journal, concluded, “All this is clearly indicative of two things: first, the utter stagnation of trade between this port and America at the present moment; and secondly, the prevalence of superstition and symplicity among a class of our countrymen who ought to know better than to leave their homes and kindred, in order to follow the fortunes of one of the most ignorant and impudent quacks of modern days, whose knavery is so transparent as to be seen through by every person of ordinary capacity.” (“The Mormons,” Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser [Dublin, Ireland], 7 Oct. 1842, [4].)
Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser. Dublin. 1806–1924.
By October 1842, the Saints in Liverpool were aware of JS’s 8 August 1842 arrest on charges that he had been complicit in the attempted assassination of Lilburn W. Boggs. (“Latest from Nauvoo,” Millennial Star, Oct. 1842, 3:112.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.