In the evening a prayer-meeting in the hall over the store. Mr. Cole having kept a school in the hall for some time, the noise proved a nuisance for the clerks in the history office, and I gave Dr. W. Richards orders to tell Mr. Cole he must find some other room in which to teach school, as the room is needed for councils. Meeting at the stand. Elder Rigdon preached. [Sidenote: Work in the British Mission.] Received a letter from Reuben Hedlock, dated Liverpool, October 16. He informs me there is a great call for {66} preaching, and many Elders are wanted throughout the British Isles. Much opposition. The Saints are anxious to have the _Star_ continue its publication, as 1,600 copies are circulated. Also received a letter from Hyrum Clark, giving a partial account of the business affairs of the emigration and publishing offices. _Monday, 6.--_Domestic affairs kept me busy in the morning, and in the afternoon listened to William W. Phelps giving a relation of his visit to the governor, which amused me. It has been very cool for some days past. Elder Erastus Snow arrived with a company from Massachusetts. [Sidenote: The Prophet's Anxiety concerning the History of the Church.] _Tuesday, 7.--_Mr. Cole moved the tables back into the hall, when Richards and Phelps called to report that the noise in the school disturbed them in the progress of writing the History. I gave orders that Cole must look out for another place, as the history must continue and not be disturbed, as there are but few subjects that I have felt a greater anxiety about than my history, which has been a very difficult task, on account of the death of my best clerks and the apostasy of others, and the stealing of records by John Whitmer, Cyrus Smalling and others. [Sidenote: Preliminary Steps to Publish in Nauvoo Edition of Doctrine and Covenants.] The quorum of the Twelve--viz., President Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George A. Smith, and Willard Richards, assembled in the mayor's office, and voted to raise $500 to get paper, &c., to print the _Doctrine and Covenants._ Also voted that Parley P. Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, and John Taylor be a committee to borrow or get the money, and that President Young go along with them. _Wednesday, 8.--_From nine to eleven, a.m., had an interview with Richards and Phelps, read and heard read part of my history, then attended to settling some accounts {67} with several individuals. In the afternoon, I examined a sample of fringe designed for the pulpits of the Temple; and from two to three, conversed with Phelps, Lewis, John Butler and others. The _Neighbor_ has the following:-- _Misrepresentations Corrected._