Correspondence
On board West Wind
St. Joseph, Mo., July 2, 1864
President Cannon:
We take great pleasure in resuming the report of our journey for your information….We will here state that we were met at Chicago by Elder Parley P. Pratt, who left the company with which he sailed from Liverpool, on arriving in the States, to visit his wife’s relations. He accompanied us to Wyoming….
[Millennial Star, 26:524]
[Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 2, 1864, 2]
[transcribed and proofread by David Grow, Aug. 2006]
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Arrivals.
Elders Parley P. Pratt and Samuel P. Neslen arrived on the 25th ult., the former from a three and a half and the latter from a two and a half year’s mission to Europe. They crossed the plains in Capt. Hyde’s train.
[Deseret News, Nov. 2, 1864]
[transcribed and proofread by David Grow, Sept. 2006]