Supplement to the Millennial Star. August 1844. Address to the Saints . . . Awful Assassination. The Pledged Faith of the State of Illinois Stained With Innocent Blood by a Mob.

Liverpool: The Latter-day Saint Millennial Star, 1844. Pamphlet. 16 pp. Flake-Draper 4762. Announces the Death of Joseph Smith. Each page within black bands. Minor chipping to several pages especially at the top right corner; last page separated from the rest and the last two pages have old tape stains in the margins.

This supplement brought the details of the assassination 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. A notation on the copy in the Franklin D. Richards set in the Brigham Young University Lee Library suggests that the supplement was printed in 2,100 copies.

It includes the text of the Nauvoo Neighbor Extra of June 30, 1844 (item 226), 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 (item 223) 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. The last page is filled out with an article on recent flooding along the Mississippi, and a short piece on the restraint of the Mormons following the assassination. Condition: Very good. Item #40646

Price: $1,750.00