Footnotes
“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.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [2], 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
Pratt, Autobiography, 361.
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.
Sonne, Saints on the Seas, 148; William Clayton, Penwortham, England, to Brigham Young and Willard Richards, Manchester, England, 19 Aug. 1840, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL.
Sonne, Conway B. Saints on the Seas: A Maritime History of Mormon Migration, 1830–1890. University of Utah Publications in the American West, vol. 17. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1983.
Reed, John S. Letter, Mexico, NY, to Brigham Young, 6 Dec. 1861. Brigham Young Office Files, CHL. CR 1234 1, box 28, fd. 13.
Morris, Reminiscences, 24–25, 33; “Shipping Intelligence,” Morning Chronicle (London), 7 Feb. 1842, [4].
Morris, George. Reminiscences, ca. 1867–1886. CHL.
Morning Chronicle. London. 1789–1865.
The Tremont departed Liverpool on 12 January 1842 with 143 passengers, most of whom were Latter-day Saints. (“Emigration Movements,” Millennial Star, Feb. 1842, 2:155.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
According to the Millennial Star, most of these passengers were Latter-day Saints. (“Emigration Movements,” Millennial Star, Feb. 1842, 2:155.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Burnham, a member of the Quorum of the Seventy, arrived in Liverpool in early November 1840 for his mission in Great Britain. (James Blakeslee, Rome, NY, to “Dear Brethren,” 11 June 1841, in Times and Seasons, 15 July 1841, 2:483–484.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
On 15 January 1841 the First Presidency issued “A Proclamation, to the Saints Scattered Abroad,” which urged the Saints to contribute financially and otherwise to building a temple in Nauvoo. On 24 October 1841 Parley P. Pratt and Amos Fielding pledged to send $1,000 over the course of the year and began to facilitate the Saints’ donations. (Proclamation, 15 Jan. 1841; Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 24 Oct. 1841.)
The John Cumming was scheduled to depart Liverpool for New Orleans on 20 February 1842. (“Emigration Movements,” Millennial Star, Feb. 1842, 2:155.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
The March 1842 edition of the Millennial Star advertised that Parley P. Pratt and Amos Fielding were chartering the Hanover to transport Saints to New Orleans; the ship was scheduled to depart Liverpool on 12 March. (“Emigration,” Millennial Star, Mar. 1842, 2:176.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.