Letter to Parley Parker Pratt, 12 June 1842
Nauvoo Ill,
Elder P P. Pratt
Dear Brother
As I have an
opportunity of sending a letter by Elders Fielding
& Clark to my friends in England I thought I
would improve it by saying a few words to
Elder Pratt, But what shall I talk about
in order to have it interesting to you. as
to news I have not much ownly the whole world
is in a hubbub excpt Nauvoo we have peace &
quietness here L. W. Bogg has been shot in his
own house but was alive the last accounts
Many of the papers th[r]ough the U.S.A want to exchange
with the Mormon papers our exchange list
his increased to 100 weekly & many others
want to exchange & most all have sumthing
to say about the Saints, Mobs are reeque[s]t[ed]
through many parts of America, Texas has
proclaimed war against Mexico. It is a hea[l]thy
time in Nauvoo. The Temple & Nauvoo Home
is progressing as fast as circumstances will permit
but that is rather slow, emigration is like Bees—
swarming they flow in from all parts our congregations
are exeeding large, Many are Baptized in the font for the dead
we are all generally in good health & spirits & our families
As to deaths their has been but few of late among us
Heman T Hide died a few days since, The Legion numbers
