Footnotes

1. [1]

   Minutes, 6 May 1839; Authorization for John P. Greene, ca. 6 May 1839.

2. [2]

   Samuel Holmes et al., Letter of Introduction for John P. Greene, 8 May 1839, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 41–42; Greene, Facts relative to the Expulsion, iii.

   Greene, John P. Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons or Latter Day Saints, from the State of Missouri, under the “Exterminating Order.” By John P. Greene, an Authorized Representative of the Mormons. Cincinnati: R. P. Brooks, 1839.

3. [3]

   Greene, “Biographical Sketch of the Life and Travels of John Portenus Greene,” 4.

   Greene, Evan Melbourne. “A Biographical Sketch of the Life and Travels of John Portenus Greene,” 1857. CHL. MS 15390.

4. [4]

   See Greene, Facts relative to the Expulsion.

   Greene, John P. Facts Relative to the Expulsion of the Mormons or Latter Day Saints, from the State of Missouri, under the “Exterminating Order.” By John P. Greene, an Authorized Representative of the Mormons. Cincinnati: R. P. Brooks, 1839.

5. [5]

   Thompson was hired to be JS’s clerk after previous clerk James Mulholland died on 3 November 1839. Emma Smith complained that as of 6 December, Thompson had “not done any thing at all in the business,” which suggests he did not copy Greene’s letter until later in December, at the earliest. Thompson probably copied Greene’s 30 June 1839 letter into the book by April 1840, when scribe Howard Coray began “copying a huge pile of letters into a book,” presumably where Thompson left off in JS Letterbook 2. (Obituary for James Mulholland, Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:32; Emma Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to JS, Washington DC, 6 Dec. 1839, Charles Aldrich Autograph Collection, State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines; Coray, Autobiographical Sketch, 17.)

   Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

   Coray, Howard. Autobiographical Sketch, after 1883. Howard Coray, Papers, ca. 1840–1941. Photocopy. CHL. MS 2043, fd. 1.