Footnotes
A loose copy of this broadside exists. It measures 12 × 9⅜ inches (30 × 24 cm). This larger size suggests that the sheets bearing Facsimile 2 may have been cut down when tipped into the newspaper. (A Fac-simile from the Book of Abraham, No. 2. [Nauvoo, IL, 1842], copy at CHL.)
A Fac-simile from the Book of Abraham, No. 2. [Nauvoo, IL, 1842]. Copy at CHL.
Footnotes
Editorial, ca. 1 Mar. 1842, draft, JS Collection, CHL.
Lyman, Journal, 11 July 1835.
Lyman, Amasa. Journals, 1832–1877. Amasa Lyman Collection, 1832–1877. CHL. MS 829, boxes 1–3.
William W. Phelps, Kirtland, OH, to Sally Waterman Phelps, Liberty, MO, 19 and 20 July 1835, in Phelps, “Letters of Faith from Kirtland,” 529.
Phelps, Leah Y. “Letters of Faith from Kirtland.” Improvement Era 45, no. 8 (Aug. 1942): 529.
“Another Humbug,” Cleveland Whig, 5 Aug. 1835, [1].
Cleveland Whig. Cleveland. 1834–1836.
Woodruff, Journal, 25 Nov. 1836. The remainder of the entry implies Woodruff referred to the papyri and not the dictated English manuscript: “& not ownly the hieroglyphicks but also many figures that this precious treasure Contains.”
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
“Copied from the Journal of Anson Call,” 3–4. According to Call’s record, the reading took two hours. Given that Call’s record is not in fact a contemporaneous journal, Call may have misremembered either how long the reading took or that they read solely from the Book of Abraham. They may have also read from the manuscript of JS’s Bible revision.
Call, Anson. “Copied from the Journal of Anson Call,” 1879. CHL. MS 4783.
William Appleby, Journal, 5 May 1841, as published in “Journal of a Mormon,” Christian Observer, 10 Sept. 1841, 146.
Christian Observer. Philadelphia. 1840–1861.
Elizabeth Haven, Quincy, IL, to Elizabeth Howe Bullard, Holliston, MA, 21, 28, and 30 Sept. 1839; 6–10, 13–15, and 17 Oct. 1839, Barlow Family Collection, CHL. According to Haven, JS “preached upon things of the kingdom before the foundation of the world.”
Barlow Family Collection, 1816–1969. CHL.
JS, Discourse, ca. May 1841, JS Collection, CHL.
JS, Discourse, [ca. 28 Mar. 1841], in McIntire, Notebook, [17]–[18].
William W. Phelps, Kirtland, OH, to Sally Waterman Phelps, Liberty, MO, 19 and 20 July 1835, in Phelps, “Letters of Faith from Kirtland,” 529.
Phelps, Leah Y. “Letters of Faith from Kirtland.” Improvement Era 45, no. 8 (Aug. 1942): 529.
Joseph Coe, Kirtland, OH, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 1 Jan. 1844, JS Collection, CHL.
Oliver Cowdery, Kirtland, OH, to William Frye, Lebanon, IL, 22 Dec. 1835, in Cowdery, Letterbook, 74; see also the published version in LDS Messenger and Advocate, Dec. 1835, 2:234–237. In 1837, William West, citing Cowdery’s published letter and commenting on the records to be translated, stated that “a larger volume than the Bible will be required to contain them.” (West, Few Interesting Facts, 5.)
Cowdery, Oliver. Letterbook, 1833–1838. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate. Kirtland, OH. Oct. 1834–Sept. 1837.
West, William S. A Few Interesting Facts, Respecting the Rise Progress and Pretensions of the Mormons. No publisher, 1837.
“Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 1 Sept. 1841, 2:521–522; JS, Journal, 8 Mar. 1842.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
JS, Journal, 4 Feb. 1842; Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return, Oct. 1890, 346; Woodruff, Journal, 4 Feb. 1842.
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff, Journal, 19 Feb. 1842, underlining in original.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
In the 1 February 1843 issue of the Times and Seasons, John Taylor, who replaced JS as editor of the newspaper late in 1842, informed his readers that “we had the promise of Br. Joseph, to furnish us with further extracts from the Book of Abraham.” Similarly, Wilford Woodruff informed Parley P. Pratt in June 1842 that the Book of Abraham “will be continued [in the Times and Seasons] as fast as Joseph gets time to translate.” (“Notice,” Times and Seasons, 1 Feb. 1843, 4:95; Wilford Woodruff, Nauvoo, IL, to Parley P. Pratt, Liverpool, England, 16 June 1842, Parley P. Pratt, Correspondence, CHL; see also “Valedictory,” Times and Seasons, 15 Nov. 1842, 4:8.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Pratt, Parley P. Correspondence, 1842–1855. CHL. MS 897.
Editorial, ca. 1 Mar. 1842, draft, JS Collection, CHL.
Woodruff spent some of his day “making up the Mails or prepairing papers for it.” On 3 March, JS wrote a letter in which he stated that the “first Number of the Times & Seasons which I have issued as Editor, comes from the press this evening.” (Woodruff, Journal, 4 Mar. 1842; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Hiram Barney, New York City, NY, 3 Mar. 1842, in JS Letterbook 2, p. 228.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff, Journal, 19 Mar. 1842.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff, Journal, 9–13 and 16–19 May 1842.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff, Journal, 19 Mar. 1842.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff related to Parley P. Pratt that “many of the papers through the U.S.A want to exchange with the Mormon papers[.] our exchange list has increased to 100 weekly.” (Wilford Woodruff, Nauvoo, IL, to Parley P. Pratt, Liverpool, England, 16 June 1842, Parley P. Pratt, Correspondence, CHL.)
Pratt, Parley P. Correspondence, 1842–1855. CHL. MS 897.
Editorial, LDS Millennial Star, July 1842, 3:47.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
See, for example, “The Mormons—Joe Smith, the Prophet,” Times and Seasons, 16 May 1842, 3:797.
“A Fac-simile from the Book of Abraham,” New York Herald, 3 Apr. 1842, [2].
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
“The Mormons—a Leaf from Joe Smith,” New York Herald, 3 Apr. 1842, [2].
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
The Times and Seasons reprinted Bennett’s comments, stating, “We perceive that he [Bennett] has a notion of feeling a little funny at our expense.” (“The Mormons—a Leaf from Joe Smith,” Times and Seasons, 2 May 1842, 3:775.)
This article was reprinted in “The Mormons—Joe Smith, the Prophet,” Times and Seasons, 16 May 1842, 3:797. To print the first facsimile of the Book of Abraham, the Dollar Weekly Bostonian was necessarily required to remake the woodcut or plate from the Times and Seasons.
This extract from the New York State Mechanic was reprinted in Times and Seasons, 1 June 1842, 3:805.
“Mormon Blasphemy,” Witness (Pittsburgh), July 1842, 34.
The Witness. Pittsburgh. 1842.
Caswall, City of the Mormons, 72; “Mormonism; or, New Mohammedanism in England and America,” 297.
Caswall, Henry. The City of the Mormons; or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842. London: J. G. F. and J. Rivington, 1842.
“Mormonism; or, New Mohammedanism in England and America,” Dublin University Magazine 21, no. 123 (Mar. 1843): 283–298.
Woodruff, Journal, 19 Feb. 1842.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Editorial, ca. 1 Mar. 1842, draft, JS Collection, CHL.
Wilford Woodruff, Nauvoo, IL, to Parley P. Pratt, Liverpool, England, 16 June 1842, Parley P. Pratt, Correspondence, CHL.
Pratt, Parley P. Correspondence, 1842–1855. CHL. MS 897.
“The Book of Abraham,” and Editorial, LDS Millennial Star, July 1842, 3:33–36, 46.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
The Pearl of Great Price: Being a Choice Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph Smith, First Prophet, Seer, and Revelator to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Liverpool, England: F. D. Richards, 1851); see also t. The Pearl of Great Price joined the Holy Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants as the fourth of the four “standard works” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Pearl of Great Price: Being A Choice Selection from the Revelations, Translations, and Narrations of Joseph Smith, First Prophet, Seer, and Revelator to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Liverpool: Published by F. D. Richards, 1851.
Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. 3 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997–2012.
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