Footnotes
Although the letter itself has no date, JS’s reply to it states that the letter was written on 28 September 1835. (JS, Journal, 16 Nov. 1835.)
Minute Book 2, 11 Sept. 1833.
For an overview of the expulsion, see “A History, of the Persecution,” Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:19–20; Jan. 1840, 1:33–36.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Brigham Young, in Journal of Discourses, 27 June 1858, 7:54.
Journal of Discourses. 26 vols. Liverpool: F. D. Richards, 1855–1886.
JS, Journal, 16 Nov. 1835.
JS, Journal, 16 Nov. 1835.
Minute Book 1, 30 Jan. 1836.
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, 1835–1836.
See Proverbs 6:18.
James Hervey, an Anglican clergyman from England, used the phrase “the sure prospect of entering into a whole world of disembodied beings” in his 1747 work Contemplations on the Night. (Hervey, Meditations and Contemplations, 1:7–8, 10, 2:42, italics in original.)
Hervey, James. Meditations and Contemplations, by the Rev. James Hervey, A. M., Late Rector of Weston-Favell, Northamptonshire; Containing His Meditations among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower Garden, &c. 2 vols. New York: Richard Scott, 1824.
See Boynton, Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, 74.
Boynton, Henry W., ed. The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mi in, 1902.