Footnotes
“Obituary of Leo Hawkins,” Millennial Star, 30 July 1859, 21:496–497.
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan was a two-volume travelogue by John Lloyd Stephens, published in 1841. The work recounted “a journey of nearly three thousand miles in the interior of Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, including visits to eight ruined cities, with full illustrations from drawings taken on the spot by Mr. [Frederick] Catherwood,” an English artist. Before delivering the volumes to JS, Woodruff read them. On 13 September 1841 he recorded, “I spent the day in reading the 1st vol of INCIDENTS OF TRAVELS. . . . I felt truly interested in this work for it brought to light a flood of testimony in proof of the book of mormon.” (Stephens, Incidents of Travel, 1:iii; Woodruff, Journal, 13 Sept. 1841.)
Stephens, John L. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. 2 vols. 11th ed. New York City: Harper and Brothers, 1841.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Woodruff had returned from a mission in the British Isles in May 1841. After arriving in New York, he left for Maine to reunite with his wife, Phebe Carter Woodruff, and to meet Wilford Jr., their newborn son. Woodruff was back in New York on 21 August 1841 to accept the money and gift for JS. (Woodruff, Journal, 27 and 28 May 1841; 2 June 1841; 21 Aug. 1841.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Counterfeit bills were ubiquitous during the first half of the nineteenth century, and detecting them became increasingly difficult. By the 1830s their prevalence was so widespread that people were cautious when accepting money, and “counterfeit detector” pamphlets were even published for consultation. (Mihm, Nation of Counterfeiters, 5–8.)
Mihm, Stephen. A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
The Greenwich Savings Bank, incorporated in 1833, was located at 11 Sixth Avenue in southwest Manhattan, New York City, within blocks of Bernhisel’s residence on Hudson Street. (History of the Greenwich Savings Bank, 7–8.)
History of the Greenwich Savings Bank, New York, Together with the Acts of Incorporation and a List of the Trustees and Officers from the Foundation of the Institution. New York: De Vinne Press, 1896.
Don Carlos Smith died on 7 August 1841 from “consumption,” likely pulmonary tuberculosis. (“Death of General Don Carlos Smith,” Times and Seasons, 16 Aug. 1841, 2:503; Letter to Oliver Granger, 30 Aug. 1841.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.