Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718.
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
Willard Richards, Journal, 9 Aug. 1844; “Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1844, 5:693; see also Minutes, Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:30.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Andrus and Fuller, Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 24; Wilkinson et al., Brigham Young University, 4:255.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
Wilkinson, Ernest L., Leonard J. Arrington, and Bruce C. Hafen, eds. Brigham Young University: The First One Hundred Years. Vol. 4. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1976.
Footnotes
The docket on the retained copy of the letter, featured here, includes “Galena” as the intended recipients’ location.
Lyne and Powell’s company briefly performed in Chicago’s Rialto Theater in August 1842. (McVicker, Theatre, 48–49; Sherman, Chicago Stage, 67–77, 447; Briggs and Briggs, “Early Theater in Chicago,” 171–172.)
McVicker, J. H. The Theatre; Its Early Days in Chicago. Chicago: Knight and Leonard, 1884.
Sherman, Robert L. Chicago Stage: Its Records and Achievements. Vol. 1. Chicago: By the author, 1947.
Briggs, Harold E., and Ernestine B. Briggs. “The Early Theater in Chicago.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 39, no. 2 (June 1946): 165–178.
Clayton similarly signed earlier letters written on JS’s behalf. (See, for example, Letter to Horace Hotchkiss, 30 June 1842; and Letter to Richard M. Young, 23 Dec. 1842.)
“Nauvoo Theatre,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 1 May 1844, [2]; Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Pittsburgh Branch, Church Records, 1838–1919, p. 1, microfilm, 1,927,909, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; see also Carmack, “Seven Ages of Thomas Lyne,” 53–72.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Carmack, Noel A. “The Seven Ages of Thomas Lyne: A Tragedian among the Mormons.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 14 (1994): 53–72.
Although the letter appears to quote the ordinance, the material within quotation marks does not exactly match the wording of the ordinance. The first section of the ordinance stated “that any Person or Persons who shall at any time hereafter, bring into, and desire to exhibit within this Corporation, any Curiosities of nature or art, not inconsistent with decency, or contrary to good Morals, shall previously to the exhibition thereof, procure a License,” with fees as indicated in the ordinance. Individuals who violated this section of the ordinance would be fined “a sum not exceeding Fifty Dollars.” The second section prohibited “all exhibitions inconsistent with decency, or contrary to good Morals . . . under the Penalty of one hundred Dollars for every offence.” (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 5 July 1842, 87–88.)
JS is referring to the 1838–1839 expulsion of the Latter-day Saints from Missouri. (See “Part 3: 4 November 1838–16 April 1839”; and “Part 4: 24 April–12 August 1839.”)