Footnotes
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, 1, 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
Snow, Journal, 1841–1847, 3–13. For more on Benjamin Winchester’s role in the Philadelphia branch, see Philadelphia Branch Record Book, 6 Apr. and 14 Dec. 1840; 6 Apr. 1841; Benjamin Winchester, Philadelphia, PA, 10 Feb. 1840, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, May 1840, 1:104; and Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 22 Nov. 1839.
Snow, Erastus. Journals, 1835–1851; 1856–1857. CHL. MS 1329, box 1, fds. 1–3.
Philadelphia Branch, Record Book, 1840–1854. CCLA.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
For more information on John E. Page and his travels, see Letter from John E. Page, 1 Sept. 1841.
It is unclear when Winchester last wrote JS since no other letters from Winchester to JS have been located. Some of Winchester’s letters to various individuals did, however, appear in the church’s newspaper. (See “Important Church News,” Times and Seasons, May 1840, 1:109; and Benjamin Winchester, Philadelphia, PA, 10 Feb. 1840, Letter to the Editor, Times and Seasons, May 1840, 1:104.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
It is not clear why this asterisk was inscribed.
Lorenzo Barnes was one of the clerks at the 16 August 1841 special church conference at which Brigham Young assigned several individuals to embark on proselytizing missions. Two of the individuals named at that meeting were Benjamin Winchester and Erastus Snow, who were called to go to Salem, Massachusetts. (See Minutes, 16 Aug. 1841.)
Hyrum Smith and William Law passed through Philadelphia in early July 1841, having previously traveled through Salem Massachusetts. At that time, they asked Erastus Snow and Benjamin Winchester to go to Salem and “try to establish the kingdom in that city.” (Snow, Journal, 1841–1847, 3.)
Snow, Erastus. Journals, 1835–1851; 1856–1857. CHL. MS 1329, box 1, fds. 1–3.
TEXT: Possibly “that I could” or “that I would”.
Snow and Winchester departed Philadelphia for Salem on 14 July 1841. Winchester left Salem by 9 September to return to Philadelphia. (Snow, Journal, 1841–1847, 5, 13.)
Snow, Erastus. Journals, 1835–1851; 1856–1857. CHL. MS 1329, box 1, fds. 1–3.
According to Snow, after he and Winchester held a meeting at a crowded hall in Salem, they “wrote an address to the citizens of Salem and vicinity setting forth our doctrine in short inviting them out to hear us preach. It contained 8 large royal octavo pages. We got 2500 copies printed.” In addition to explaining the doctrine and beliefs of the church, the address refuted negative claims and perceptions about the church and its founder. It also featured Snow and Winchester’s testimony of the Book of Mormon and a brief history of the persecution of the Latter-day Saints in Missouri. (Snow, Journal, 1841–1847, 13; Snow and Winchester, Address to the Citizens of Salem, 1–8; Crawley, Descriptive Bibliography, 1:171.)
Snow, Erastus. Journals, 1835–1851; 1856–1857. CHL. MS 1329, box 1, fds. 1–3.
Snow, Erastus, and Benjamin Winchester. An Address to the Citizens of Salem and Vicinity. Salem, MA: Salem Observer Press, 1841.
Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. 3 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997–2012.
The editor of the Times and Seasons published the Salem address in two parts: the first in the 15 October 1841 issue and the second in the 15 November 1841 issue. (Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:574–576; 15 Nov. 1841, 3:578–584.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.