Footnotes
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.
Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 48–55.
Bitton, David, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.
“Letters to and from the Prophet,” ca. 1904, [4], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL. The JS Collection includes five letters that Orson Hyde wrote in 1844. The circa 1904 inventory does not specify whether the letter received from Orson Hyde is this one, dated 26 April 1844, or the one dated 25 April 1844. The letters were docketed and processed similarly, so the inventory may be referring to both letters. (See Letter from Orson Hyde, 25 Apr. 1844.)
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
See Letter from Orson Hyde, 25 Apr. 1844; and Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, ca. 24–26 Mar. 1844; see also Letter from Orson Hyde, 30 Apr. 1844; Orson Hyde, Washington DC, to “Dear Brethren,” Nauvoo, IL, 9 June 1844; and Orson Hyde, Washington DC, to “Dear Brethren,” Nauvoo, IL, 11 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.
Council of Fifty, “Record,” 11 and 19 Mar. 1844; “List of Letters,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Jan. 1844, [3]. As a postmaster, Rigdon was entitled to franking privileges, meaning he could receive mail for free.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
See Luke 18:25; Matthew 19:24; and Mark 10:25.
In a 6 May 1844 letter to John E. Page, Hyde similarly stated that “if One would memorialize Congress upon any subject, he must not ask what is just and right to petition for, But what Kind of a bill will Congress pass?” Speaking disparagingly of the ambition and “tangling alliances” he saw in Washington DC, Hyde contrasted Congress with Latter-day Saint councils, noting that “there is more wisdom and order manifes[te]d in one of our councils at Nauvoo, than you would ever see here.” (Orson Hyde, Wilmington, DE, to John E. Page, Pittsburgh, PA, 6 May 1844, photocopy, CHL.)
Hyde, Orson. Letter, Wilmington, DE, to John E. Page, Pittsburgh, PA, 6 May 1844. Photocopy. CHL.
By 6 May 1844, Hyde had traveled to Wilmington, Delaware. (See Orson Hyde, Wilmington, DE, to John E. Page, Pittsburgh, PA, 6 May 1844, photocopy, CHL.)
Hyde, Orson. Letter, Wilmington, DE, to John E. Page, Pittsburgh, PA, 6 May 1844. Photocopy. CHL.
Although federal law restricted trading or settling in Indian Territory, there was no legal penalty for traveling through the territory. (See An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes, and to Preserve Peace on the Frontiers [30 June 1834], Public Statutes at Large, 23rd Cong., 1st Sess., chap. 161, pp. 729–735.)
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.
Cherokee chief John Ross arrived in Washington DC with a delegation from the Cherokee Nation by 19 April 1844. The Cherokee hoped to solidify their claim to their current territory and to negotiate a treaty to compensate them for the lands and improvements they had lost when they were forced from their homeland in the southeastern United States in 1838. (John Tyler, Washington DC, to John Ross et al., Washington DC, 20 Sept. 1841; John Ross, Washington DC, to William Wilkins, 19 Apr. 1844; John Ross et al., Washington DC, to William Wilkins, 30 May 1844; William Wilkins, Washington DC, to John Ross et al., 8 July 1844; John Ross et al., Washington DC, to William Wilkins, 17 July 1844, in Moulton, Papers of Chief John Ross, 104–105, 196–197, 203–205, 216–227.)
Moulton, Gary E., ed. The Papers of Chief John Ross. Vol. 2, 1840–1866. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.