- Malissa Lott, Affidavit, May 20, 1869, Joseph F. Smith, Affidavit Books, 1:23, 4:23. Affidavit specifies September 20, 1843, and erroneously lists the sealing year as 1842. Affidavit printed in Joseph Fielding Smith, Blood Atonement and the Origin of Plural Marriage, 72, 55.
- George A. Smith, Letter to Joseph Smith III, October 9, 1869.
- Malissa Lott Willes, Statement, August 4, 1893, to Joseph Smith III, quoted in Raymond T. Bailey, “Emma Hale: Wife of the Prophet Joseph Smith,” 99.
- Malissa Lott, Temple Lot Transcript, Part 3, pp. 97, 105–6, questions 87–93, 224–60; specifies September 27, 1843.
- Lott Family Bible, MS 3373, specifies September 20, 1843.
- Eliza R. Snow, “First list of wives,” Document #1, in Andrew Jenson Papers, MS 17956, Box 49, fd. 16.
- Jenson, “Plural Marriage,” 234; “Miscellaneous,” 5 (December 1886): 119.
- Nauvoo Temple proxy marriage to Joseph Smith, February 8, 1846, in Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings, 285.
- Joseph Smith III, Letter to Bro. E. C. Brand, n.d. [likely early 1880s]; Johnson, My Life’s Review, 96.