Footnotes

1. [1]

   See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 14 May 1843.

2. [2]

   See Discourse, between ca. 26 June and ca. 2 July 1839; Discourse, 14 May 1843; and Discourse, 17 May 1843–A.

3. [3]

   See Levi Richards, Journal, 21 May 1843.

   Richards, Levi. Journals, 1840–1853. Levi Richards, Papers, 1837–1867. CHL. MS 1284, box 1.

4. [4]

   See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 4 July 1843.

5. [5]

   Coray and Coray, Notebook, verso, [36]. Martha Jane Knowlton Coray recounted that “from the age of thirteen years,” she had been “much in the habit of noting down evrything, I heard and read which possessed any peculiar interest to me, in order to preserve facts.” According to one account, Coray “took in common hand every di[s]course that she heard him [JS] preach, and has carefully preserved them.” Coray’s daughter noted that “it was ever her [Coray’s] custom when going to meeting to take pencil and note paper; she thus preserved notes of sermons that would otherwise have been lost to the Church.” (Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Provo, Utah Territory, to Brigham Young, 13 June 1865, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; Obituary for Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, Woman’s Exponent, 1 Feb. 1882, 10:133; Lewis, “Martha Jane Knowlton Coray,” 440.)

   Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton, and Howard Coray. Notebook, ca. 1853–1855. CHL.

   Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.

   Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.

   Lewis, Martha J. C. “Martha Jane Knowlton Coray.” Improvement Era 5, no. 6 (Apr. 1902): 439–440.