• Emily D. Partridge, Affidavits, May 1, 1869, Joseph F. Smith, Affidavit Books 1:11, 13; 4:11, 13. Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 223.
  • Eliza Partridge, Affidavits, July 1, 1869, MS 3423, LDS Church History Library; also in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavit Books, 2:34, 3:34.
  • George A. Smith, Letter to Joseph Smith III, October 9, 1869.
  • Emily D. Partridge, Temple Lot Transcript, Part 3, pp. 371, 384, questions 480–84, 747, 751–62.
  • Emily D. P. Young, “Autobiography,” Woman’s Exponent 14, no. 5 (August 1, 1885): 38.
  • Malissa Lott, dictation in “First list of wives,” Document #1, Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
  • William Clayton, Affidavit, February 16, 1874, MS 3412, LDS Church History Library; in Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 221.
  • Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, January 14, 1846. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 281.
  • Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 234.
  • Joseph Smith III, Letter to Bro. E. C. Brand, n.d. [likely early 1880s] Letter Press Book #4, 63–67, P6, Community of Christ Archives.
  • Benjamin F. Johnson, My Life’s Review, 96.
  • [Oliver Olney?], uncatalogued manuscript, Western Americana, Beinecke Library, Yale University, folder labeled “Nauvoo Female Society.” Some of the writing on the document is dated October 18, 1843.1
  1. Quoted in D. Michael Quinn PapersCAdditionCUncat WA MS 244 (Accession:19990209-c), Box 1CCard fileCTopic: Polygamy, Joseph Smith’s. I have been unable to find the original of this letter. See also letter from John Lyman Smith to D. H. Cannon, [n.d.] 1895, LDS Church History Library, which substantiates that Joseph advised that Sarah be sealed to him but live with her legal husband.  (back)