Footnotes
Though many others spelled her name “Jacques,” as well as a variety of other spellings, extant evidence indicates that Vienna consistently spelled her last name “Jaques.” (Photograph of Vienna Jaques, ca. 1867, George Albert Smith, Miscellaneous Portraits, ca. 1862–1873, CHL; Vienna Jaques, Salt Lake City, to Brigham Young, 2 July 1870, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833, in Doctrine and Covenants 84:7, 1835 ed. [D&C 90:28].)
Smith, George Albert. Miscellaneous Portraits, ca. 1862–1873. CHL. PH 5962. The original portrait of Vienna Jaques within this collection is in private possession.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
Under the date of 4 March 1859, the Historian’s Office journal records that “Pres. Young sent over to the Historian Office after the autograph of Joseph Smith. which was furnished him from a letter that Joseph wrote himself & sent to Vienna Jaques.” (Historian’s Office, Journal, 4 Mar. 1859.)
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
JS History, vol. A-1, addenda, 1–2.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 28 May 1845.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
The Historian’s Office journal includes a transcript of this letter after an entry dated 15 February 1859. (Historian’s Office, Journal, 15 Feb. 1859.)
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Footnotes
George Hamlin, “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Mar. 1884, 12:152.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
According to one Boston area newspaper, “Mormonite preachers have recently visited this city, and made about 15 converts to their strange doctrines, who have been baptised and joined the Mormon church.” According to Orson Hyde’s and Samuel Smith’s journals, during that summer the two men also preached in areas surrounding Boston and once lodged at Jaques’s second home in Fox Point wharf, near Providence, Rhode Island. (See “Mormonism,” American Traveller [Boston], 28 Aug. 1832, [2]; Samuel Smith, Diary, 22 June–7 Aug. 1832; and Hyde, Journal, 25 June–7 Aug. 1832.)
American Traveller. Boston. 1825–1844.
Smith, Samuel. Diary, Feb. 1832–May 1833. CHL. MS 4213.
Hyde, Orson. Journal, Feb. 1832–Mar. 1833. CHL. MS 1386.
George Hamlin, “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Mar. 1884, 12:152.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
A copy of the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon that apparently belonged to Vienna Jaques is held at the Church History Library. On the first page of the book is inscribed the following: “The Writeing above is Joseph Smith’ own handwriteing which he wrote, the day he gave the book me Vienna Jaques on the 22d of November 1832.” This note, apparently written by Jaques, follows a notation written by JS: “Vienna Jaque[s] Book Novem 22d. 1832.” A letter JS wrote to Missouri in late November 1832 indicates that Jaques was in Kirtland by that time. (Letter to William W. Phelps, 27 Nov. 1832.)
Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833 [D&C 90:28–31].
“Mormonism,” American Traveller (Boston), 28 Aug. 1832, [2]. Later histories stated the amount donated by Jaques was $1,400. However, neither the evidence cited in those histories nor extant contemporaneous evidence corroborates that figure. According to Edward Tullidge’s Women of Mormondom, published in 1877, Jaques “went to Kirtland in 1833, being a single lady and very wealthy. When she arrived in Kirtland she donated all of her property to the church.” It is not clear if Tullidge interviewed Jaques for this publication. One obituary for Jaques similarly states that she collected her “considerable means” and that “by her liberality rendered” much “pecuniary assistance to the Church in its infancy.” Another obituary simply stated, “She was well known and widely respected for her life-long integrity and many virtues of character.” (Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 441; George Hamlin, “In Memoriam,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 Mar. 1884, 12:152; “Vienna Jacques Dead,” Deseret News [Salt Lake City], 13 Feb. 1884, 49.)
American Traveller. Boston. 1825–1844.
Tullidge, Edward W. The Women of Mormondom. New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
Revelation, 8 Mar. 1833 [D&C 90:28–30]; Minutes, 30 Apr. 1833; Letter to Church Leaders in Jackson Co., MO, 2 July 1833; “Obituary,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Dec. 1833, 117.
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
Vienna Jaques, Statement, 22 Feb. 1859, CHL; see also [Edward Partridge], “A History, of the Persecution,” Times and Seasons, Dec. 1839, 1:18.
Jaques, Vienna. Statement, 22 Feb. 1859. CHL. MS 3172.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
JS earlier stated that letters to Missouri were meant to be available to all church members. (Letter to Edward Partridge, 2 May 1833.)
In late March 1833, David Patten and Reynolds Cahoon “were designated to Journey to gethe [together] by the Spirit” to Warsaw, New York. They arrived in Warsaw on 15 April 1833. Patten spent the next several months preaching in the area of Jefferson County, New York, at the eastern end of Lake Ontario bordering Upper Canada. In late May, Patten wrote that he “continued to labor round About in Jefferson Co and now I Preached in the Town of Orleanes and through the Blessing of God I Planted a small Church their to the number of Eighteen members through menny Pirsicution and affictions and All maner of Evil speaking for the name of Jesus Christ and when Divers ware harden I went to Henderson whear I found A more noble People then they of Alexandra for they gladly received the word of the Lord now they of Henderson when I had Preached the first Prinsipals of the Doctrin of Christ Acording to the Holy Order of God there ware Eight that Desired to baptised for the remishion of their sins and acordingly they ware Baptised and wen hands was laid upon them the Holy Ghost came uppon them and they spake With tong[ue]s and Prophesied and I laiboured continuly through the Months of may June July August in the which tim[e] I through the bessing of God I planted some other Branches the amount in all was Eighty members.” (Minutes, 23 Mar. 1833–B; Patten, Journal, May–Aug. 1833, [49]–[51].)
Patten, David W. Journal, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 603.
In his journal, Patten provided details on the gift of healing. He wrote, “Now the Lord did work with me wounderfully in sines and wounders following them that did Believe in the fullness of the gospil of Jesus Christ in somuch that the Deef ware made to Hear the Blin[d] to sea and the lam[e] ware made whole feevers Palsyes croocked limbs and withered limbs and in fine all manner of Deseases was heald common to the Cuntry By the Power of the Lord Jesus Christ that was manifested in His sirvents.” (Patten, Journal, May–Aug. 1833, [51]–[52].)
Patten, David W. Journal, 1832–1834. CHL. MS 603.
See John 9:4.
These documents—the plan of the House of the Lord and the plat of the city of Zion—arrived in Missouri on 29 July 1833, two weeks before Partridge wrote his letter. The information that JS promised to deliver here included recently revised versions of both the city plat and the plan for the House of the Lord, which JS apparently felt would answer the questions in Partridge’s letter. Orson Hyde and John Gould left Kirtland around 4 September 1833 and arrived in Jackson County in late September with the documents mentioned here. (See Plan of the House of the Lord, between 1 and 25 June 1833; Plat of the City of Zion, ca. Early June–25 June 1833; Letter from John Whitmer, 29 July 1833; Revised Plat of the City of Zion, ca. Early Aug. 1833; Oliver Cowdery, Kirtland, OH, to John Whitmer, Missouri, 1 Jan. 1834, in Cowdery, Letterbook, 14–17; Knight, History, 439; and “History of Orson Hyde,” 12, Historian’s Office, Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861, CHL.)
Cowdery, Oliver. Letterbook, 1833–1838. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.
Historian’s Office. Histories of the Twelve, 1856–1858, 1861. CHL. CR 100 93.
TEXT: JS’s signature was cut out of this letter in 1859, when Brigham Young requested a copy of JS’s autograph. (Historian’s Office, Journal, 4 Mar. 1859.)
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.