Footnotes

1. [1]

   This is the location where all prior Female Relief Society of Nauvoo meetings had been held.

2. [2]

   See Historical Introduction to Notice, 11 May 1842; “Joseph Smith Documents from May through August 1842”; and Letter to Emma Smith and the Relief Society, 31 Mar. 1842.

3. [3]

   JS, Journal, 24 May 1842; Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 24–25 May 1842.

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

4. [4]

   While JS’s references to guilty individuals likely applied to those who had been involved with Bennett’s seductions, JS’s admonition to keep confidences may have also related to rumors and misunderstandings about JS’s practice of plural marriage. (See “Joseph Smith Documents from May through August 1842”; Historical Introduction to Letter to Emma Smith and the Relief Society, 31 Mar. 1842; and Derr et al., First Fifty Years of Relief Society, 11–12.)

   Derr, Jill Mulvay, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds. The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.

5. [5]

   For the full minutes of the 26 May 1842 meeting of the Relief Society, see Derr et al., First Fifty Years of Relief Society, 68–72.

   Derr, Jill Mulvay, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Kate Holbrook, and Matthew J. Grow, eds. The First Fifty Years of Relief Society: Key Documents in Latter-day Saint Women’s History. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.