Footnotes
Added and canceled material will be identified in the text; those words that Richards merely wrote over for clarification will not be.
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 8 Oct. 1840; Orson Spencer, “Death of Our Beloved Brother Willard Richards,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 16 Mar. 1854, [2].
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
“Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Jenson, Autobiography, 192, 389; Cannon, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891; Jenson, Journal, 9 Feb. 1891 and 19 Oct. 1897; Bitton and Arrington, Mormons and Their Historians, 47–52.
Jenson, Andrew. Autobiography of Andrew Jenson: Assistant Historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . . Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938.
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
Jenson, Andrew. Journals, 1864–1941. Andrew Jenson, Autobiography and Journals, 1864–1941. CHL.
Bitton, David, and Leonard J. Arrington. Mormons and Their Historians. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1988.
See the full bibliographic entry for Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 1840–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:23].
Woodruff, Journal, 19 Apr. 1843; see also Lucien Woodworth and Peter Haws, Nauvoo, IL, to George Miller and Henry Miller, Black River, Wisconsin Territory, 10 May 1843, Nauvoo House Association, Records, CHL.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Nauvoo House Association. Records, 1841–1846. CHL. MS 2375.
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According to the account of this meeting in JS’s journal, JS made this statement after Brigham Young “asked if the Twelve should go to England?”
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The account of this meeting in JS’s journal adds “& done well” here.
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Snow had recently returned to Nauvoo after serving a mission in England for almost three years. (JS, Journal, 12 Apr. 1843.)
The account of this meeting in JS’s journal has “their” instead of “your.”
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The account of this meeting in JS’s journal has “Stratas” instead of “states.”
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The account of this meeting in JS’s journal has “if you take him out of the channel he wants to be in.” Winchester had been causing issues in the Philadelphia branch since his appointment as presiding elder over the branch in April 1841. A schism in the branch developed in 1842, and Winchester and his supporters began holding meetings in a different location from the rest of the branch. Hyrum Smith and William Law visited the branch in October 1842 and encouraged its members to “reorganize and begin anew.” Early in 1843, Winchester began creating discontent again, leading Peter Hess, who had been appointed to preside over the branch in September 1842, to write a letter to Hyrum Smith, JS, and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Hess explained that Winchester’s removal from the branch would allow it to “move forward in her majesty and streng[t]h,” declaring Winchester was a “secret spring” who “thrusts himself” into matters “where he is not wanted.” (“Progress of Mormonism,” Hartford [CT] Daily Courant, 4 Jan. 1842, [2]; Philadelphia Branch Record Book, 6 Apr. 1841, 17; 14 Sept. 1842, 31; 15 and 31 Oct. 1842, 32–34; Letter from Peter Hess, 16 Feb. 1843.)
Hartford Daily Courant. Hartford, CT. 1840–1887.
Philadelphia Branch, Record Book, 1840–1854. CCLA.
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At an 11 May 1843 meeting of the Twelve, the apostles present voted that Hedlock and James “go on a mission to England.” Hedlock had served an earlier mission to England with the apostles, arriving there in April 1840 and returning to Nauvoo in April 1841. (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 11 May 1843; JS History, vol. C-1, 967, 1026, 1042; “Hedlock, Reuben,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 4:314.)
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
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.
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At an 11 May 1843 meeting, the Twelve also appointed Lucius N. Scovil to go to England “under the direction of Elder Hedlock,” who was directed to preside over the church there. In addition, they appointed James Sloan to preach in Ireland, Dan Jones to proselytize in Wales, and John Cairns to preach in Scotland. (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 11 May 1843.)
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
According to the account of this meeting in JS’s journal, this statement was directed toward apostle John Taylor, who was the editor of the Times and Seasons. That account also adds “he can write for thousands to read while he can preach to but few.”
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Pratt, his wife Mary Ann Frost Pratt, and their children arrived in Nauvoo only a week earlier, on 12 April 1843, after a lengthy mission to England. The family initially resettled in Nauvoo without a home of their own, living for a time, as Pratt wrote, in “one small room” that served as “kitchen parlour, dining room, bedroom & publick office.” (Parley P. Pratt, Nauvoo, IL, to John Van Cott, Canaan Four Corners, NY, 7 May 1843, CHL.)
Pratt, Parley P. Letter, Nauvoo, IL, to John Van Cott, Canaan Four Corners, NY, 7 May 1843. CHL. MS 5238.
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The account of this meeting in JS’s journal has “face” here.
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George A. Smith apparently suffered from problems with his lungs that led him to cough or spit up blood on occasion. On 14 July 1843, he wrote to his wife, Bathsheba Bigler Smith, from Cincinnati that he had “Not Ben troubled Wth Bleding” but then noted in an 18 September letter that he “spit some Blood” when speaking in Boylston Hall in Boston to one thousand people. (George A. Smith, Cincinnati, OH, to Bathsheba Bigler Smith, Nauvoo, IL, 14 July 1843; George A. Smith, Boston, MA, to Bathsheba Bigler Smith, Nauvoo, IL, 18 Sept. 1843, George Albert Smith, Papers, CHL.)
Smith, George Albert. Papers, 1834–1877. CHL. MS 1322.
In JS’s manuscript history, this reads, “if you both stay, you will disagree.” George A. Smith, who was present at this meeting, was apparently responsible for this change in wording in the manuscript history. Woodruff was listed along with John Taylor as the printer and publisher of the Times and Seasons. (JS History, vol. D-1, 1538; Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, 19 Apr. 1843; George A. Smith, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Wilford Woodruff, 21 Apr. 1856, in Historian’s Office, Historical Record Book, 218–221; Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 441; Masthead, Times and Seasons, 15 Nov. 1842, 4:16.)
Historian’s Office. Historical Record Book, 1843–1874. CHL. MS 3434.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Apostle John E. Page had been preaching in Pittsburgh since December 1841. In April 1842, he appeared before a church conference in Nauvoo to explain why he had not accompanied Orson Hyde overseas on a mission, as he was assigned to do. The conference voted for Page to continue preaching in Pittsburgh, and he accordingly returned there. (Letter from George Gee, 30 Dec. 1841; JS and Brigham Young, Notice, Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:582; Petition from Richard Savary and Others, ca. 2 Feb. 1842; Minutes and Discourses, 6–8 Apr. 1842; Letter to John E. Page, 16 July 1842.)
At the April 1842 church conference, JS reprimanded Page for not accompanying Orson Hyde on his mission and stated that Page “showed a little grannyism” in his actions. However, JS also declared that the church should maintain fellowship with Page, and the conference voted that he remain “in full fellowship.” The insult old granny was in heavy use during the presidential election of 1840 and carried “implications of senility, imbecility, and demasculinization.” It was also used to designate someone who was a fool or out of touch with reality. (Minutes and Discourses, 6–8 Apr. 1842; News Item, North American and Daily Advertiser [Philadelphia], 2 Apr. 1840, [2]; “Signs of the Times,” Madisonian [Washington DC], 25 June 1840, [3]; Zboray and Zboray, “Gender Slurs in Boston’s Partisan Press,” 422; Hinchliff, “Protest and a Reply,” 125.)
North American and Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia. 1839–1845.
The Madisonian. Washington DC. 1837–1841.
Zboray Ronald J., and Mary Saracino Zboray. “Gender Slurs in Boston’s Partisan Press dur- ing the 1840s.” Journal of American Studies 34, no. 3 (2000): 413–446.
Hinchliff, Emerson. “A Protest and a Reply.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 34, no. 1 (1941): 123–130.
Although JS and Page exchanged letters in summer 1842, that correspondence appears to have dropped off thereafter. Five days after this 19 April meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve, Page sent a letter to JS stating that he had not forgotten him. (Letter from John E. Page, 24 Apr. 1843; see also Letter to John E. Page, 16 July 1842; Letter from John E. Page, 8 Aug. 1842; and Letter from John E. Page, 15 Aug. 1842.)
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