Footnotes
David Felt & Co. was a stationery company run by David Felt in New York City at this time. (Longworth, Longworth’s American Almanac [1842], 234; Morris, Felt Genealogy, 155–156.)
Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register, and City Directory, for the Sixty-Seventh Year of American Independence. . . . New York: T. Longworth and Son, 1842.
Morris, John E., comp. The Felt Genealogy. A Record of the Descendants of George Felt of Casco Bay. Hartford, CT: Lockwood and Brainard, 1893.
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.
Richard Howard, email to Rachel Killebrew, 5 June 2017, copy in editors’ possession.
Footnotes
“Honorary Degree,” “Freedom of the City,” and “Military Appointment,” Wasp, 30 Apr. 1842, [3]; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 22 Apr. 1842, 74–75.
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
James Arlington Bennet [Cincinnatus, pseud.], “The Mormons,” New York Herald, 16 May 1842, [2].
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
Richards had traveled to the eastern United States to be reunited with his family and help them move to Nauvoo. At the same time, he had been assigned to raise money for the Nauvoo temple and to serve as an agent on general church business, but JS also wanted him to convey to Bennet “all the facts” relative to John C. Bennett. After staying with Bennet, Richards wrote a letter to JS conveying Bennet’s views on various matters. Bennet’s 16 August letter repeats some of this information. (“To the Eastern Churches,” Times and Seasons, 1 June 1842, 3:814; Letter to James Arlington Bennet, 30 June 1842; Richards, Journal, 4 and 7 Aug. 1842; Letter from Willard Richards, 9 Aug. 1842.)
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
William Paley, archdeacon of Carlisle in the Church of England, was a lecturer at Cambridge University in moral philosophy, divinity, and the New Testament. He published Moral and Political Philosophy in 1785, based on his Cambridge lectures. Paley argued that “even names are not indifferent. When the multitude are to be dealt with, there is a charm in sounds. It was upon this principle, that several statesmen of those times advised Cromwell to assume the title of king, together with the ancient style and insignia of royalty.” (Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, 304, italics in original; Schneewind, Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant, 446–447.)
Paley, William. The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. 8th American ed. Boston: West and Richardson, 1815.
Schneewind, J. B., ed. Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
William Smith, JS’s brother, was the initial editor of the Wasp. By August 1842, William appears to have been only a nominal editor, with John Taylor assuming editorial responsibilities for the newspaper. (See Times and Seasons, 1 Aug. 1842; and “Letter from Col. Robinson,” Sangamo Journal [Springfield, IL], 26 Aug. 1842, [2].)
Sangamo Journal. Springfield, IL. 1831–1847.
JS responded in an 8 September 1842 letter that the Nauvoo post office was “exceedingly corrupt” and that “it is with great difficulty that we can get our letters to, or from our friends.” JS blamed John C. Bennett and “his confederates,” including Sidney Rigdon, for the “robbing of the Post Office.” (JS, Journal, 8 Sept. 1842; see also JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Horace Hotchkiss, [Fair Haven, CT], 26 Nov. 1842, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 241–242.)