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.)
The “guards” were a continuation of a boat’s deck that extended past its hull. They served the dual purpose of protecting the ship and increasing its cargo capacity. (Gudmestad, “Steamboats and the Removal of the Red River Raft,” 391; see also Letter from David S. Hollister, 8 Jan. 1844; and Hunter, Steamboats on the Western Rivers, 91, 93.)
Gudmestad, Robert. “Steamboats and the Removal of the Red River Raft.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 52, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 389–416.
Hunter, Louis C. Steamboats on the Western Rivers: An Economic and Technological History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.
Wheeling, Virginia (now in West Virginia).
This line is likely a reference to the pamphlet published as part of JS’s presidential campaign that described his political views. (General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States, ca. 26 Jan.–7 Feb. 1844.)
TEXT: “Wheel[page torn]”. Text missing due to damage here and in the rest of the document has been supplied from context.
The Whig convention was held on 1 May in a rented space, the city’s Universalist Church. On 2 May, the delegates paraded through the streets of Baltimore. Hollister arrived in the city two days after the procession. (Haynes, First American Political Conventions, 71–77.)
Haynes, Stan M. The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832–1872. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.
Ahead of the 1844 Democratic convention in Baltimore, the party’s nominee for the presidency was still in question. Former president Martin Van Buren was the frontrunner, but he faced a serious challenge from Lewis Cass and a less likely challenge from Richard M. Johnson. One delegate wrote that “there is so many rumors, so much excitement, that it seems impossible to come to any correct conclusions for the future. Every thing is in doubt.” (McBride, Joseph Smith for President, 117; Cave Johnson, Baltimore, MD, to James K. Polk, Columbia, TN, 27 May [1844], in Correspondence of James K. Polk, 7:157.)
McBride, Spencer W. Joseph Smith for President: The Prophet, the Assassins, and the Fight for American Religious Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Cutler, Wayne, and James P. Cooper Jr., eds. Correspondence of James K. Polk. Vol. 7, January–August 1844. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1989.
It is unclear how Hollister reached this estimate of the cost of the convention. He may have been referring to the amount of money that delegates in Baltimore spent on food and lodging. During the Democratic convention later that month, one newspaper reported that “this city is swarming with politicians of all classes, and lucky is the man who can procure a bed whereon to repose his weary limbs.” The Whig convention presumably attracted a similar-sized crowd and led to a similar expenditure of money. (“The Tyler Convention,” New York Herald [New York City], 29 May 1844, [3]; see also Haynes, First American Political Conventions, 71.)
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
Haynes, Stan M. The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832–1872. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.
The Democratic convention was to be held in the Odd Fellows Hall in Baltimore from 27 through 30 May. (Haynes, First American Political Conventions, 80–87.)
Haynes, Stan M. The First American Political Conventions: Transforming Presidential Nominations, 1832–1872. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.