1. Alexander H. Smith to Bishop E. L. Kelley, May 31, 1893, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f47, RLDS Library-Archives, the Auditorium, Independence, Missouri.

2. To Oscar E. Carlstrom, Illinois Attorney-General, March 29, 1926, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f62, RLDS Librarry Archives.

3. Kenneth Stobaugh notes from RLDS Presiding Bishopric Historic Properties Correspondence Files, copy of notes on file at the Joseph Smith Historic Center, Nauvoo, Illinois; hereafter cited as Stobaugh notes.

4. Bishop Benjamin McGuire to Bishop, George Lambert, May 1918, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f207, RLDS Library Archives (original paragraphing modified).

5. “Progress and Development of General Church Property at Nauvoo,” Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f214, RLDS Library-Archives.

6. Mormon Trail, 1939, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f213, RLDS Library-Archives; also Ward Christy to Presiding Bishopric, October 15, 1937, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f213, RLDS Library-Archives.

7. James Page to Bishop Clarence A. Skinner, July 16, 1940, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f213, RLDS Library-Archives;John Fitzsimmons to Bishop Clarence A. Skinner, August 19, 1940, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f216, RLDS Library-Archives; and G. Leslie DeLapp to Bishop Clarence A. Skinner, October 10, 1940, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f216, RLDS Library-Archives.

8. Bishop C. A. Skinner to the Presiding Bishopric, May 20, 1941, Nauvoo, Presiding Bishopric Papers, P54, f217, RLDS Library-Archives.

9. Historic Properties: Nauvoo Correspondence, Walter Johnson Papers, P67, f48, 49, RLDS Library-Archives.

10. Robert Fishburn to the Presiding Bishopric, 1954, in Stobaugh notes.

11. Walter N. Johnson, “Restoration of Nauvoo Homes”; and Sidney C. Moore Sr., “Our Experience at Nauvoo,” Saints’ Herald 105 (May 19, 1958): 461–63, 464.

12. Stobaugh notes; and Edwin Robert Fishburn, “Come to Historic Nauvoo,” Saints’ Herald 105 (May 19, 1958): 465–67.

13. For the Prophet’s reported statement on September 15, 1843, see Joseph Smith Jr., The History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ed. B. H. Roberts, 2d ed. Revelation., 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1957), 6:33. Robert T. Bray, Archaeology at the Joseph Smith Stable, Southwest Corner Water and Carlin Streets, Nauvoo, Illinois (Columbia: University of Missouri–Columbia, 1971), 17.

14. Robert T. Bray, Archaeology at the Joseph Smith Homestead, Nauvoo, Illinois (Columbia: University of Missouri—Columbia, 1972), 9.

15. Bray, Archaeology at the Joseph Smith Homestead, 69–70.

16. Robert T. Bray, Times and Seasons, An Archaeological Perspective on Early Latter Day Saint Printing (Columbia: University of Missouri–Columbia, 1975), 23–26, 57–59.

17. Thomas T. Alderson and Shirley Payne Lowe, Interpretation of Historic Sites (Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1976), 146.

18. Restoration Trail Forum 1 (February 1975): 6.

Kenneth E. Stobaugh

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