[Supplement to the Millennial Star: August 1844. Address to the Saints.]
[Liverpool, 1844] 16 pp. 22 cm.

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This supplement brought the details of the assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith to the British Saints.  It is routinely bound with the fifth volume of the Star; and even though it does not indicate a place of publication, it certainly was printed in Liverpool by James and Woodburn, who were printing the Star at the time.

It includes the text of the Nauvoo Neighbor Extra of June 30, 1844, with a few trivial grammatical improvements.  This is followed by some editorial comments presumably by Thomas Ward, the editor of the Star; Joseph Smith’s mayoral proclamation of June 16, taken from the Nauvoo Neighbor Extra of June 17 or the Neighbor of June 19; a letter from Orson Hyde dated at New York, July 10, 1844; an extract of a letter from Reuben Hedlock, dated at Birmingham, July 31, 1844; and an article from The Prophet of May 25, 1844, on the authority of the apostles. 

Excerpted and edited from Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church.  Volume One, 1830-1847. (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, [1997]).  Item 233, p. 276.

Used by permission of the author and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University.