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.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 7 June 1853; Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to George A. Smith, 30 Aug. 1856, in Historian’s Office, Letterpress Copybooks, vol. 1, p. 364.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Historian’s Office. Letterpress Copybooks, 1854–1879, 1885–1886. CHL. CR 100 38.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [4], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL. There are two extant 1844 letters from Page but this inventory lists only one.
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
Brigham Young, Nauvoo, IL, to John E. Page, [Boston, MA], 25 Nov. 1843, copy, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; see also Revelation, ca. 25 Nov. 1843.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
In 1844 mail sent from Washington DC often arrived in Nauvoo within three weeks. (See, for example, Historical Introduction to Letter from Orson Hyde, 25 Apr. 1844.)
This line is likely a reference to the wife of printer William Greer, who printed a newspaper in Washington DC called Kendall’s Expositor. (Masthead, Kendall’s Expositor [Washington DC], 5 Mar. 1844, 65; “Newspaper Cemetery,” Evening Star [Washington DC], 16 Dec. 1902, part 5, p. 10.)
Kendall’s Expositor. Washington DC. 1841–1845.
Evening Star. Washington DC. 1854–1972.
Miller was a Baptist preacher who maintained that a careful study of the Bible showed that the second advent of Jesus Christ would occur in or before 1844. Miller did not claim the gift of prophecy but calculated the date of the Second Coming based on his interpretations of various numerical periods and measurements in the book of Daniel. His views became widely known after he published Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year 1843 in 1836, and his premillennial message was accepted by thousands of Christians in the early 1840s. Though Miller affirmed many times that he had never set a precise date for the second coming of Christ, many Millerites predicted that the event would occur during specific days or times in 1843 and then in 1844. JS found no validity in Miller’s claims and, the year before, had told some young male visitors in Nauvoo of the “fallacey of Mr [William] Millers data. concerni[n]g the Millnim [Millennium].” (Doan, Miller Heresy, 31–33, 44–48; William Miller, Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year 1843: Exhibited in a Course of Lectures [Troy, NY: Kemble and Hooper, 1836]; “The Time of the End,” Christian Secretary, 13 Jan. 1843, [3]; “The Christian Secretary,” Christian Secretary, 27 Jan. 1843, [3]; “The Time of the End,” Signs of the Times, 4 Jan. 1843, 121; “The Christian Secretary,” Signs of the Times, 18 Jan. 1843, 141; JS, Journal, 12 Feb. 1843; see also “Spring,” Vermont Chronicle [Windsor], 5 Apr. 1843, 55; and Stuart, Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy, 172–173.)
Doan, Ruth Alden. The Miller Heresy, Millennialism, and American Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987.
Miller, William. Evidence from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year 1843; Exhibited in a Course of Lectures. Troy, NY: Kemble and Hooper, 1836.
Christian Secretary. Hartford, CT. 1838–1896.
Signs of the Times and Expositor of Prophecy. Boston. 1840–1844.
Vermont Chronicle. Bellows Falls, VT. 1826–1828; Windsor, VT. 1828–1862.
Stuart, Moses. Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy. 2nd ed. Andover, MA: Allen, Morrill, and Wardwell, 1842.
See Isaiah 11:12; and Jeremiah 31:6–9. An 1831 revelation explained that the gathering of Israel would occur before the second coming of Jesus Christ. (Revelation, 3 Nov. 1831 [D&C 133:17–35].)
JS was the lieutenant general of the Nauvoo Legion, an independent unit of the Illinois state militia.
In 1843 Latter-day Saints voted overwhelmingly for Hoge over his Whig opponent, Cyrus Walker. (JS, Journal, 5–7 Aug. 1843.)