Footnotes
Minutes, 17 July 1840; “Books!!!,” Times and Seasons, July 1840, 1:139–140.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
See, for example, Letter from Parley P. Pratt, 22 Nov. 1839; Editorial, Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:25; Letter from Hyrum Smith, 2 Jan. 1840; and Letter from Brigham Young, 7 May 1840.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 29 Dec. 1839, 39.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
“Wanted,” Times and Seasons, Apr. 1840, 1:91; May 1840, 1:112.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return, May 1890, 258–259. Robinson later recalled that he and JS “compared a copy of the Kirtland edition [1837] with the first edition [1830], by reading them entirely through, and I took one of the Kirtland edition as a copy for the stereotype edition.” The 1837 Kirtland edition Robinson carried to Cincinnati apparently contained editorial notations because the text of the 1840 edition, in addition to containing grammatical alterations, differs from the earlier version in about forty-seven places. (Larson, “Study of Some Textual Variations in the Book of Mormon,” 278–283; Walker, “As Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” 16–18.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
Larson, Stanley R. “A Study of Some Textual Variations in the Book of Mormon Comparing the Original and the Printer’s Manuscripts and the 1830, the 1837, and the 1840 Editions.” Master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1974.
Walker, Kyle R. “‘As Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: Ebenezer Robinson, Don Carlos Smith, and the 1840 Edition of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 1–40.
At this time, Cincinnati was widely viewed as the center of book publishing in the western United States. By 1841 an estimated one to two million books were published in that city annually, and by 1850 it ranked fourth in the nation in the output of books behind New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. (Teaford, Cities of the Heartland, 13–16; Walker, “As Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” 20.)
Teaford, Jon C. Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.
Walker, Kyle R. “‘As Fire Shut Up in My Bones’: Ebenezer Robinson, Don Carlos Smith, and the 1840 Edition of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 1–40.
Robinson later recalled that he contracted with foundry owners C. K. Gleason and Edwin Shepard to create stereotype plates for $550. Robinson paid $100 up front with a promise to pay “two hundred and fifty dollars more in three months” and “the remaining two hundred dollars within three months after the work was done.” Robinson also purchased on credit $250 worth of paper to print two thousand copies of the Book of Mormon and contracted a bookbinder to bind the copies once they were printed. (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” Return, May 1890, 260.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.
Minutes, 17 July 1840; “Books!!!,” Times and Seasons, July 1840, 1:139–140; Agreement with Ebenezer Robinson and Don Carlos Smith, 14 Dec. 1840.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
As president of the Nauvoo stake, Marks presided over the Nauvoo high council. Higbee possibly signed the letter as a substitute member of the Nauvoo high council, a position to which he was appointed at the council’s 25 July 1840 meeting. (Minutes and Discourses, 5–7 Oct. 1839; Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 25 July 1840, 68.)
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
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Bent joined the church in 1833 and witnessed the confiscation of church members’ property at Far West, Missouri, by militia members in 1838. Harris joined the church in 1834 and similarly lost property in Missouri during the 1838 Missouri conflicts. (Samuel Bent and Lettice Palmer Bent, Affidavit, 2 Jan. 1840, Record Group 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, National Archives, Washington DC; Affidavit, 20 Jan. 1840.)
Record Group 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives / Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to the Committee on Judiciary during the 27th Congress. Committee on the Judiciary, Petitions and Memorials, 1813–1968. Record Group 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789–2015. National Archives, Washington DC. The LDS records cited herein are housed in National Archives boxes 40 and 41 of Library of Congress boxes 139–144 in HR27A-G10.1.
See Hebrews 12:12.
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