Footnotes
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497; JS History, vol. F-1, 62–63.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [4], 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
JS, Journal, 23 Apr. 1844; Clayton, Journal, 23 Apr. 1844.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Historical Introduction to Authorization for Orson Pratt, 12 Mar. 1844; JS, Journal, 31 Mar. 1844.
“Public Meeting,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 24 Apr. 1844, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
On 23 April 1844, the St. Louis Republican falsely reported that JS “has turned his wife out of doors.” The claim appears to have been based on a 19 April steamboat trip to St. Louis that Emma Smith made without JS. The Boston Post reprinted the story on 6 May and then, on 16 May, published its own story refuting the rumor. (Newell and Avery, Mormon Enigma, 178.)
Newell, Linda King and Valeen Tippetts Avery. Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, Prophet’s Wife, “Elect Lady,” Polygamy’s Foe, 1804–1879. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984.
Letter from David S. Hollister, 8 Jan. 1844; Letter from Dan Jones, 8 Jan. 1844. In January 1844, a sheriff in New Orleans detained the vessel until unpaid debts, previously contracted in St. Louis, were paid. (See Enders, “Steamboat Maid of Iowa,” 331–335; and Letter from John Cowan, 23 Jan. 1844.)
Enders, Donald L. “The Steamboat Maid of Iowa: Mormon Mistress of the Mississippi.” BYU Studies 19, no. 3 (Spring 1979): 321–335.
Letters from Washington DC typically arrived in Nauvoo in three or four weeks. The trip from Baltimore to Washington DC could be made in one day. (See Letter from Orson Hyde, 30 Apr. 1844.)
4 May 1844.
The steamboat Valley Forge, completed in Pittsburgh in 1839, was the first iron steamboat built in the United States. (“Iron Steam-Boat,” Alton [IL] Telegraph, 14 Mar. 1840, [2]; Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, 114–115.)
Alton Telegraph and Democratic Review. Alton, IL. 1841–1850.
Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.
28 April 1844.