Letter to the Mormon Battalion-- See notes under date of February 26, 1847. President Brigham Young addressed a letter to the members of the Battalion in California. This letter was to be carried back to California by Captain James Brown and Samuel Brannan, who were about to start on horseback for the San Francisco Bay region:
"When you receive this and learn of our location, it will be wisdom for you all, if you have got your discharge as we suppose, to come directly to this place, where you will learn particularly who is here. If there are any men who have not families among your number, who desire to stop in California for a season, we do not feel to object; yet we do feel that it will be better for them to come directly to this place, for here will be our headquarters for the present, and our dwelling place, as quick as we can go and bring up our families which we have left behind this season for the purpose of bringing on yours that you might meet them here; and we want to see you, even all of you, and talk with you, and throw our arms around you and kill the fatted calf and make merry. Yes, brethren, we want to rejoice with you once more." {1847-August 8-BY-Nibley, p. 103}
[source: Clark, James R., Messages of the First Presidency (6 volumes)]
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