Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [3], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
For more information on the circumstances surrounding the creation of this letter, see Historical Introduction to Letter from David S. Hollister, 8 Jan. 1844.
Clayton, Journal, 21 Sept. and 5 Oct. 1843.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
See Jones, “Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith,” [22]; and Letter from Erastus Derby, 9 Oct. 1843.
Dennis, Ronald D. “The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith and His Brother Hyrum.” BYU Studies 24 (Winter 1984): 78–109.
This letter is apparently not extant. The General Brooke did not reach Nauvoo until 28 February 1844, after the Mississippi River was clear of ice. (See Lytle, Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States 1807–1868, 71; and JS, Journal, 28 Feb. 1844.)
Lytle, William M., comp. Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States 1807–1868. Edited by Forrest R. Holdcamper. Mystic, CT: Steamship Historical Society of America, 1952.
This letter is apparently not extant.
Erastus Derby wrote to JS in October 1843 criticizing Jones’s management of the Maid of Iowa. David S. Hollister also wrote JS on 8 January 1844 complaining of Jones’s actions and reporting that Jones’s wife, Jane Melling Jones, had accused JS of trying to cheat her husband. (Letter from Erastus Derby, 9 Oct. 1843; Letter from David S. Hollister, 8 Jan. 1844.)
Derby claimed that Jones had tried to replace him as the ship’s clerk after Clayton left in October 1843, but he refused to give up his position unless JS told him to do so. (Letter from Erastus Derby, 9 Oct. 1843.)