---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1840 to 1841.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 2
number: 18
published: 1841-07-15
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“Important to Agents,” *Times and Seasons* 2, no. 18 (July 15, 1841): 479."
printed_title: Important to Agents.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-07-15_2_18
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v2n18.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-07-15_2_18
start_page: 479
end_page: 479
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-07-15_2_18
  publication_year: 1841
---

# Important to Agents

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The agents of the Times and Seasons, will accept our grateful acknowledgments for the interest they have taken in its circulation, and we hope they will continue their exertions in so laudable a work until our little sheet shall have as great a circulation as any in the Union.

We would, also, say that they are authorized to act as agents for the "Nauvoo Ensign and Zarahemla Standard," a weekly newspaper, the prospectus of which you will find in this paper. We hope to enlist your services; and, that we may be sustained in our present undertakings, we are admonished to pursue a close business course. We therefore propose, that all those who do not pay in advance for the "Ensign & Standard" should give their note payable in six or twelve months;. we would suggest the following as a form:

$ 184

Months after date I promise

to pay D. C. Smith, or bearer, the sum

of dollars, for value received.

This course we are obliged to take in order to sustain our establishment-for if we do not pursue such a course we can not expect to succeed.

When we commenced publishing the Times and Seasons, we endeavored to adhere to the cash system as much as possible, but notwithstanding all our care, we have more than five hundred dollars standing out in this state besides several hundred dollars in other states, and how it is to be collected we do not know. In the mean time we have to loan money at enormous interest, while sufficient is due us to meet all our demands, if it could only be obtained. We are not in the habit of dunning our subscribers for their arrears, neither do we like the trade, but if we should occasionally give them a gentle hint they must not find fault.