Footnotes

1. [1]

   “To set apart for, or assign to a particular use.” (“Appropriate,” in American Dictionary.)

   An American Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibit, I. the Origin, Affinities and Primary Signification of English Words, as far as They Have Been Ascertained. . . . Edited by Noah Webster. New York: S. Converse, 1828.

2. [2]

   Proclamation, 15 Jan. 1841. A January 1841 revelation designated Nauvoo as a gathering place and a “corner stone of Zion” and indicated that a temple would be built there. (Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:2].)

3. [3]

   “An Epistle of the Twelve,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:567–568.

   Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

4. [4]

   The printing of the scriptures was an ongoing process. On 29 December 1839 the Nauvoo high council had resolved “that Book of Mormon be printed in this place.” In 1840, Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith oversaw the acquisition of stereotype plates for the printing of the Book of Mormon, and they had printed two thousand copies by December of that year. Although the new edition of the Book of Mormon had been published by the time of Vance’s letter, the printing of the Doctrine and Covenants was ongoing. In October 1840, Robinson reported that a new edition of the Doctrine and Covenants was forthcoming, along with a hymnbook. (Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 29 Dec. 1839; Agreement with Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith, 14 Dec. 1840; Minutes and Discourse, 3–5 Oct. 1840; see also Walker, “As Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” 12–26.)

   Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.

   Walker, Kyle R. “‘As Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: Ebenezer Robinson, Don Carlos Smith, and the 1840 Edition of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 1–40.