- Elvira A. C. Holmes, Affidavit, August 28, 1869, Joseph F. Smith, Affidavit Books, 1:78, 4:80.
- Malissa Lott, “First list of wives,” Document #1, dictated to Jenson, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Marietta Welling, “Letter of Marietta Welling to Jenson regarding Elvira Cowles Holmes, June 30, 1887,” Document #6, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Jenson, “Elvira Cowles biographical information sheet,” Document #7, in Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 234.
- Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, February 3, 1846, in Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 284.
- Accompanied Eliza R. Snow, Sarah Ann Whitney, and Elizabeth Davis to visit Malissa Lot on June 29, 1843, in Beecher, The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow, 78.