Great Salt Lake city, Weather office, September 3rd 1858. Historians G. A. Smith & W. Woodruff, Dear Brethren, your cool explanatory note of yesterday is filed among the passing events of the day, as "quid pro quo;" and, under the highly progressive christian civil^i^zation of fire, fighting, fining and murder; awed by the all- wise, all powerful arm of the great American Tirshatha, sent by the Czar of the United States, Nebuchanazar, to rule the kings and queens; or guard the Lord's anointed by the pacific ...

compile the History, of which you mention till 1842. I am contended to "let Lyman lie on his own hook". While, not having denied the faith, I hold on to what I have in Jackson co. and the truth as a matter of fact in full fruition, and fond hope of "all right" in the End: for Solomon said, in Ecclesiastez 12:13— "To end the whole matter, We must obey besides fearing the Gods, then according to its precepts, take ...

which I think "lies" and hypocrisy will be out of fashion. you per- cieve by this feint reply that I can hardly get my mind, and pen to go off—having been so long absent from the council fire of the nobles of Israel, who seem to be patiently waiting for the still small voice to whisper it is finished! so may God bless you in every effort you make for truth. Respectfully as ever I remain your obt sevt. W. W. Phelps ...

G. S. L. City, Sep 3, 1858 W. W. Phelps to Historians