Footnotes
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
See the full bibliographic entry for JS Collection, 1827–1844, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
Coe requested ownership of JS’s farm, or other properties owned by JS and the church in Kirtland, as payment for what Coe claimed JS still owed him from the purchase of Egyptian mummies and papyri in 1835. (Letter from Joseph Coe, 1 Jan. 1844.)
See Historical Introduction to Letter to Oliver Granger, 26 Jan. 1841.
In February 1844, McBride reported to JS that he had collected from Coe enough of the money owed to JS to pay the property taxes owed on the farm. However, McBride was unable to collect any of the previously unpaid rent Coe owed. (Letter from Reuben McBride, 28 Feb. 1844.)
Although JS appears to have been describing the general state of the Saints in Nauvoo, he may have also been referencing the uproar resulting from the kidnappings of Daniel and Philander Avery in November and December 1843 and the ordinances the Nauvoo City Council passed in the aftermath. (Historical Introduction to Letter from Thomas Ford, 1 Jan. 1844.)