Footnotes

1. [1]

   Minutes and Discourse, 6–8 Apr. 1840.

2. [2]

   Recommendation for Orson Hyde, 6 Apr. 1840.

3. [3]

   Orson Hyde and John E. Page, Quincy, IL, 28 Apr. 1840, Letter to the Editors, Times and Seasons, June 1840, 1:116–117.

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

4. [4]

   Hyde and Page were sent abroad in the midst of political turmoil in the Middle East and extreme polarization of attitudes toward the Jewish community. Egyptian viceroy Muhammad Ali Pasha’s efforts to wrest power from the Ottoman Empire beginning in 1838 eventually led to the Oriental Crisis of 1840, which was closely followed by American newspapers. The crisis was then compounded with the Damascus Affair of 1840, when several Jews were accused of murdering a Christian monk. The church’s British periodical, the Millennial Star, explicitly connected the crisis to the restoration of the Jews: “Memorials have been sent to all the Protestant Princes, soliciting their interference in the present dispute between the Sultan and Mehemet Ali, about Palestine, to secure that country for the speedy return of the Jews.” (Karsh and Karsh, Empires of the Sand, 38; Frankel, Damascus Affair, 1–5; “Restoration of the Jews,” Millennial Star, 1 May 1840, 1:18.)

   Karsh, Efraim, and Inari Karsh. Empires of the Sand: The Struggle for Mastery in the Middle East, 1789–1923. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.

   Frankel, Jonathan. The Damascus Affair: “Ritual Murder,” Politics, and the Jews in 1840. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

   Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.

5. [5]

   See Isaiah 51:18, 19; Book of Mormon, 1840 ed., 77 [2 Nephi 8:18, 19]; and Orson Hyde, Letter Extract, Franklin, OH, 7 July 1840, in Times and Seasons, Aug. 1840, 1:156–157. According to Hyde’s 15 June 1841 letter, JS had pronounced a blessing upon him nine years earlier that in due time Hyde would “go to Jerusalem, the land of [his] fathers.” (Letter from Orson Hyde, 15 June 1841.)

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

6. [6]

   See Letter from Orson Hyde, 15 June 1841.

7. [7]

   See Letter from John E. Page, 1 Sept. 1841.

8. [8]

   Hyde’s previous letter is apparently no longer extant.

9. [9]

   In his journal, Fielding noted Adams and Hyde’s arrival in a rolling entry that covers 1–6 March but mistakenly dated the arrival as 3 February. (Fielding, Journal, Feb.–Oct. 1841, 9–10.)

   Fielding, Joseph. Journals, 1837–1859. CHL. MS 1567.

10. [10]

    See also Letter from Orson Hyde, 15 June 1841; and Letter from Orson Hyde, 17 July 1841.