Dan Jones.
Llythyr oddiwrth Capt. D. Jones at Wm. Phillips, yn cynnwys newyddion o Seion.
(A letter from Capt. D. Jones to Wim. Phillips, containing news from Zion.)
Merthyr Tydfil: John Davis, Printer, [1851]
8 pp. 17 cm.
Llythyr oddiwrth Capt. D. Jones has something that no other Welsh Mormon pamphlet has--on the last page, just preceding the name of the printer, is this information: "Published and for sale by Wm. Phillips, 14, Castle Street, Glebeland, Merthyr Tydfil." Although nothing in the publication was written by William Phillips, he received credit probably because the letter quoted in the pamphlet had been sent to him.
Dan Jones's letter is dated March 1851 and was sent from Manti, Utah, a settlement about 150 miles south of Salt Lake City. The previous fall, Brigham Young had requested that Jones settle there. In this rather lengthy letter Jones relates news of Welsh Mormons in Utah that he thought would be of interest to Mormons in Wales.
John Davis advertised the letter's availability in the 12 July 1851 Udgorn Seion (p. 228) with this comment: "Its price is one penny, and it contains splendid news."
MH, UPB, UslC
Flake no. 4478
