Footnotes
Withington, Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Collection of Western Americana, 200; Walker, Dale Morgan, 175–176.
Withington, Mary C., comp. A Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Collection of Western Americana Founded by William Robertson Coe, Yale University Library. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1952.
Walker, John Phillip, ed. Dale Morgan on Early Mormonism: Correspondence and a New History. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1986.
Footnotes
See Minutes, 15 Jan. 1836; and Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 17 Mar. 1842.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
Oliver Olney, Notebook, June–July 1842, 12 July 1842, Oliver Olney, Papers, microfilm, CHL.
Olney, Oliver. Papers, 1842–1843. Microfilm. CHL. Original at Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
The misspelled “Antient of days” follows Olney’s spelling of the name of the council.
Oliver Olney, Note, Nauvoo, IL, 9 June 1842; Oliver Olney, Notebook, June–July 1842, 19 June 1842, Oliver Olney, Papers, microfilm, CHL.
Olney, Oliver. Papers, 1842–1843. Microfilm. CHL. Original at Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
John C. Bennett, Charges Preferred against Oliver Olney, 11 Mar. 1842, Nauvoo High Council Papers, CHL.
Nauvoo High Council Papers, 1839–1844. CHL.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 17 Mar. 1842.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
Olney wrote: “They soon demanded my writings / That they could not obttain / I too well knew their feelings / I too well knew their minds / To trust them with the record / That I had kept of the L.D.S. / As it spoke of their foibles / It spoke of their works / And the ungodly doings / That I have seen a mongst the L.D.S. / Because of not getting my writings / And because of my words / They from me withdrawed / The hand of fellowship / And set me a float.” Several of his writings follow the structure of blank verse and are therefore reproduced in that format. (Oliver Olney, Notebook, Apr.–Aug. 1842, 6 Apr. 1842, Oliver Olney, Papers, microfilm, CHL.)
Olney, Oliver. Papers, 1842–1843. Microfilm. CHL. Original at Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 17 Mar. 1842.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
Oliver Olney, Notebook, Apr.–Aug. 1842, 6 Apr. 1842, Oliver Olney, Papers, microfilm, CHL. No record of a second meeting appears in the minutes of the Nauvoo high council.
Olney, Oliver. Papers, 1842–1843. Microfilm. CHL. Original at Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
See Oliver Olney, Notebook, June–July 1842, 9–11 June 1842, Oliver Olney, Papers, microfilm, CHL.
Olney, Oliver. Papers, 1842–1843. Microfilm. CHL. Original at Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
See Moore, “Writings of Oliver H. Olney,” 70.
Moore, Richard G. “The Writings of Oliver H. Olney: Early Mormon Dissident; Would-be Reformer.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 33, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2013): 58–78.
See Oliver Olney, Notebook, May–July 1842, 13 May and 18 June 1842, Oliver Olney, Papers, microfilm, CHL.
Olney, Oliver. Papers, 1842–1843. Microfilm. CHL. Original at Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
See Oliver Olney, Notebook, May–July 1842, 7 July 1842; Oliver Olney, Notebook, June–July 1842, 16 July 1842, Oliver Olney, Papers, microfilm, CHL.
Olney, Oliver. Papers, 1842–1843. Microfilm. CHL. Original at Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
See Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 17 July 1842.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
See Oliver Olney, Notebook, May–July 1842, 20 July 1842, Oliver Olney, Papers, microfilm, CHL.
Olney, Oliver. Papers, 1842–1843. Microfilm. CHL. Original at Western Americana Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Olney married Wheeler in October 1843. (Nauvoo, IL, Recorder, Marriage Record, 16; JS, Journal, 19 and 23 Oct. 1843.)