1. Letter of Dr. Wm. G. Swekosky, Aug. 25, 1941, outlining the History of Wyman’s Hall. Original is in the Missouri Historical Society.

2. Taylor and Crooks, Sketch Book of St. Louis (George Knapp & Co., 1858), p. 46.

3. Swekosky, op. cit.

4. “Preface” to Catologue of Collections at St. Louis Museum 1856. Copy is in St. Louis Public Library.

5. Walter Barlow Stevens, St. Louis: The Fourth City, 1764–1909, 1:930.

6. Catalogue, op. cit.

7. Sketches, op. cit., p. 48.

8. Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, Aug. 14, 1856, p. 3; also The Saint Louis Daily Evening News, Aug. 27, 1856, p. 3.

9. Ibid.

10. Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, July 18, 1856.

11. James R. Clark, The Story of the Pearl of Great Price.

12. Swekosky, op. cit.

13. Charles A. Pope letter to Dr. J. F. Snyder, May 30, 1857. Original is in the Archives of the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis.

14. Swekosky, op. cit.

15. St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 23, 1941.

16. Kennedy’s St. Louis City Directory, 1859, pp. 73, 405.

17. Ibid., p. 41.

18. The Missouri Republican, St. Louis, July 3, 1863.

19. Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, July 9, 1863.

20. Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1863.

21. A. T. Andreas, History of Chicago, 2:607.

22. Felix Mendelsoln, Chicago and Its Makers (1929), p. 147.

23. J. P. Bates is listed in the St. Louis City Directories 1857 to 1880 except 1864, which was probably compiled during the months he was in Chicago.

24. Although “statuettes” are mentioned here by the observer, it does not mean that they were a part of the once LDS collection. “Statuettes” are no where mentioned in the Documentary History of the Church. News articles on the museum before its acquisition of the mummies mention “Egyptian Antiquities” in The Sunday Republican, St. Louis, July 13, 1856, and also “Relics from Egypt, Greece, Rome . . .” The Missouri Republican, St. Louis, Aug. 8, 1856.

25. Daily Missouri Democrat, St. Louis, Sept. 10, 1856, copied from the Pilot, St. Louis, Sept. 8, 1856.

26. The Evening News, St. Louis, Nov. 29, 1856. Note: The “Hon. Edward Bates” was a prominent political figure in St. Louis and was the U.S. Attorney General in Lincoln’s first administration. It is likely that in the reporting of Seyffarth’s lecture the “Hon. Edward Bates” was confused with J. P. Bates, manager of the St. Louis Museum.

27. Catalogue, 1859, op. cit., p. 45. It is interesting to note that some have noted the name of “HOR” on three of the papyrus fragments recently given to the Church. This name corresponds with Seyffarth’s “HORUS” and proves which fragments were sold to the St. Louis Museum. Possibly the fragment containing Facsimile No. 3 or other hieratic writings from the same roll were what Seyffarth was describing.

28. Catalogue of the St. Louis Museum, 1859, p. 45.

29. The Academic Review (B.Y. Academy), I, No. 6 (March 1885) p. 46..

Walter L. Whipple

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