Footnotes
Joseph Smith III, Lamoni, IA, to “Dear Sirs,” Keokuk, IA, 1 July 1901, photocopy, CHL; “Notable Deaths,” Annals of Iowa, Jan. 1904, 316; “Joseph Smith,” Collector, Nov. 1903, 3–4.
Smith, Joseph, III. Letter, Lamoni, IA, to “Dear Sirs,” Keokuk, IA, 1 July 1901. Photocopy. CHL.
“Notable Deaths.” Annals of Iowa 6, no. 4 (Jan. 1904): 316–320.
“Joseph Smith.” Collector 17, no. 1 (Nov. 1903): 3–4.
Lazare, American Book-Prices Current (1947), 581; Frederick S. Peck Collection of American Historical Autographs, Foreword, 70.
Lazare, Edward, ed. American Book-Prices Current, a Record of Literary Properties Sold at Auction in the United States during the Season of 1946–1947. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1947.
Frederick S. Peck Collection of American Historical Autographs, and a Few Very Rare Books. Vol. 1. Philadelphia: Samuel T. Freeman, 1947.
Dickinson, Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers, 12–13.
Dickinson, Donald C. Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
“Doctor Prizes Copy of Paper Freeing Slaves,” Chicago Daily Tribune, 5 May 1946, part 3, p. 10; Obituary for Charles W. Olsen, Chicago Daily Tribune, 3 Dec. 1962, part 3, p. 20.
Chicago Daily Tribune. Chicago. 1872–1963.
Memorandum, 14 June 1961; David O. McKay, Salt Lake City, to Charles W. Olsen, Chicago, IL, 21 June 1961, in David O. McKay, Diary Entries, 21–22 June 1961, CHL.
McKay, David O. Diary Entries, 21–22 June 1961. Photocopy. CHL.
Footnotes
In her 7 March 1839 letter, Emma Smith noted, “We are all well at present, except Fredrick who is quite sick.” (Letter from Emma Smith, 7 Mar. 1839.)
Old Major was the Smith family’s white English mastiff. (See “The Memoirs of President Joseph Smith,” Saints’ Herald, 6 Nov. 1934, 1414; and Davis, Story of the Church, 252.)
Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.
Davis, Inez Smith. The Story of the Church. Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1938.
On 31 October 1838, Major General Samuel D. Lucas demanded that JS and other church leaders submit to arrest; otherwise, the three thousand militiamen under Lucas’s command would attack Far West, Missouri. (Samuel D. Lucas, “near Far West,” MO, to Lilburn W. Boggs, 2 Nov. 1838, copy, Mormon War Papers, MSA.)
Mormon War Papers, 1838–1841. MSA.
In a general epistle written to the church soon after this letter to Emma Smith, JS proposed that a committee be appointed “to take statements and affidafets” documenting the losses and abuses the Latter-day Saints had experienced in Missouri, with the intention of submitting the documents to the government. (Letter to Edward Partridge and the Church, ca. 22 Mar. 1839.)
In February 1839, church leaders in Quincy, Illinois, began laying the groundwork for pursuing redress for their losses, including through appointing a committee “to draught a petition to the general Government stating our Grievances and one likewise presented to the citizens for the same object.” The minutes of this February meeting were evidently sent to Far West and incorporated into the records of the Far West removal committee. Church leaders in Far West may have informed JS of these efforts. (Quincy Committee, Minutes, ca. 9 Feb. 1839, Far West Committee, Minutes, CHL; see also Historical Introduction to Letter from Edward Partridge, 5 Mar. 1839.)
Far West Committee. Minutes, Jan.–Apr. 1839. CHL. MS 2564.
Emma Smith described Governor Boggs’s expulsion order of 27 October 1838 as follows: “The ever to be remembered Governor’s notable order; an order fraught with as much wickedness as ignorance and as much ignorance as was ever contained in an article of that length.” (Letter from Emma Smith, 7 Mar. 1839.)
See Revelation, 1 Aug. 1831 [D&C 58:20].
See Psalm 91:2; and Hebrews 2:13.