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.
“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
Pratt, Autobiography, 367. Pratt left Nauvoo sometime after the 11 March 1844 meeting of the Council of Fifty (the last time his attendance was noted at the council) and before the council’s 4 April 1844 meeting, the minutes of which mention that “E[lde]r P[arley] P. Pratt was gone away.” By 19 April, he was in Chicago waiting for steamboat passage. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 11 Mar. and 4 Apr. 1844; Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 19 Apr. 1844.)
Pratt, Parley P. The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry and Travels, with Extracts, in Prose and Verse, from His Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Parley P. Pratt Jr. New York: Russell Brothers, 1874.
Parley P. Pratt, Richmond, MA, to Mary Ann Frost Pratt, Nauvoo, IL, 26 Apr. 1844, Parley P. Pratt, Papers, CHL.
Pratt, Parley P. Papers, 1837–1844. CHL.
West Stockbridge, MA, Town Records, ca. 1770–1840, vol. 1, pp. 242–243, microfilm 250,299, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, CHL. The Spencer brothers were born in West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Daniel and Chloe Wilson Spencer. Daniel Spencer Jr. was baptized into the church in 1840, and a year later he baptized his brother Orson. By late 1843, several members of the Spencer family had relocated to Nauvoo, including Augustine, who came to Nauvoo after his father’s death in November 1843 to administer his estate. Augustine Spencer did not join the church, though he was seemingly sympathetic to the Latter-day Saints because of their expulsion from Missouri; shortly after arriving in Nauvoo he signed a memorial to Congress seeking redress for the losses sustained by the Saints. By the time Pratt wrote this letter, Augustine’s relationship with his family had soured over issues related to the estate. (Rogers, Life Sketches of Orson Spencer and Others, 15–17; Nauvoo Fifth Ward High Priests Quorum, Minutes, 141; “Deaths,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 29 Nov. 1843, [3]; “Spencer, Orson,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:338; Johnson, Mormon Redress Petitions, 580; Sadler and Sadler, “Augustine Spencer,” 33–35.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Rogers, Aurelia Spencer. Life Sketches of Orson Spencer and Others, and History of Primary Work. Salt Lake City: Geo. Q. Cannon and Sons, 1898.
Nauvoo Fifth Ward High Priests Quorum. Minutes, Dec. 1844–Apr. 1845. CHL. LR 3278 21.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
Johnson, Clark V., ed. Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833–1838 Missouri Conflict. Religious Studies Center Monograph Series 16. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.
Sadler, Richard W., and Claudia S. Sadler. “Augustine Spencer: Nauvoo Gentile, Joseph Smith Antagonist.” Mormon Historical Studies 12, no. 2 (Fall 2011): 27–46.
Parley P. Pratt, Richmond, MA, to Mary Ann Frost Pratt, Nauvoo, IL, 26 Apr. 1844, Parley P. Pratt, Papers, CHL.
Pratt, Parley P. Papers, 1837–1844. CHL.
“Outrages,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 May 1844, [2]; John P. Greene, Affidavit, Nauvoo, IL, 25 May 1844, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 29 May 1844, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 103–106; “Outrages,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 May 1844, [2]. The municipal court called for Augustine Spencer’s, Higbee’s, and the Fosters’ appeals to be heard at its 3 June 1844 session. None of the four men attended the session, however, and the court dismissed the appeals “for want of prosecution.” (JS, Journal, 3 June 1844.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Eliza Ann Pierson, a niece of Willard Richards, addressed rumors circulating in western Massachusetts in a letter she wrote from Richmond to her relatives in Nauvoo: “You cannot imagine how many stories are in circulation about Jo Smith and his followers, sometimes one thing and then another, any thing to keep the people awake to the subject.” Pierson’s letter also mentioned that members in her community discussed the “spiritual wife system” and that she wondered if JS hosted and participated in balls at his home. (Eliza Ann Pierson, Richmond, MA, to Rhoda Richards, Nauvoo, IL, 3 Apr. 1844, typescript, Richards Family Papers, CHL.)
“Richards Family Letters 1840–1849.” Typescript. Richards Family Papers, 1965. CHL.
TEXT: Page torn. Possibly “talker”.
TEXT: “un[page torn]”. The missing text is supplied from context.
See Hebrews 11:38.
See Revelation, 2 Jan. 1831 [D&C 38:8].
See Job 3:17.
In his autobiography, Pratt wrote that he “proclaimed the gospel, as usual, while on this journey, on steamers on the lakes and rivers; in the cities of the Atlantic” before beginning his journey back to Nauvoo “a day or two” before JS was killed on 27 June 1844. (Pratt, Autobiography, 367–368.)
Pratt, Parley P. The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry and Travels, with Extracts, in Prose and Verse, from His Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Parley P. Pratt Jr. New York: Russell Brothers, 1874.