Footnotes
Footnotes
Rohrbough, Land Office Business, chap. 12.
Rohrbough, Malcolm J. The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789–1837. New York: Ocford University Press, 1968.
Several other letters between church leaders in western Illinois and JS in Washington DC arrived within three weeks of being sent. JS and Higbee may have received this letter as early as the end of January, when they returned to Washington DC from Philadelphia. (Letter to Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo High Council, 5 Dec. 1839; Letter to Seymour Brunson and Nauvoo High Council, 7 Dec. 1839; Letter from Hyrum Smith, 2 Jan. 1840; Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, 27 Jan. 1840, 2.)
Memorial to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, ca. 30 Oct. 1839–27 Jan. 1840; Journal of the Senate of the United States, 26th Cong., 1st Sess., 17 Feb. 1840, 179.
Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the First Session of the Twenty-Sixth Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington, December 2, 1839, and in the Sixty-Fourth Year of the Independence of the Said United States. Washington DC: Blair and Rives, 1839.
The illegible characters—likely a notation indicating the weight of the letter in order to determine postage—and numbers on this line are in unidentified handwriting.
JS and Higbee were staying at a boardinghouse on the corner of Missouri Avenue and Third Street in Washington DC. (Letter to Hyrum Smith and Nauvoo High Council, 5 Dec. 1839.)
Postmark stamped in red ink.