August 21, 1843
Joseph Smith received a letter written by Mr. J. Hall of Independence, Missouri, "breathing hard things against us as a people," which he forwarded along with some additional remarks to Illinois Governor Thomas Ford.
Writings
September 19, 1843
Joseph Smith had William W. Phelps reply to a recent letter from Illinois Governor Thomas Ford and send him "a copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting of the mobocracy at Carthage."
October 1, 1843
Joseph Smith published in the Church newspaper Times and Seasons an invitation to donate money for Elder George J. Adams's mission to Russia.
October 2, 1843
Joseph Smith wrote a letter to Lucien Adams, son of James Adams, co-owner with Joseph of the steamboat Maid of Iowa. James Adams had died of cholera in August 1843, and his son Lucien was handling his affairs, at least concerning the steamboat.
November 2, 1843
Joseph Smith and some of the brethren agreed to write to five leading candidates for the presidency of the United States, to inquire "what their course of action would be in relation to the cruelty and oppression that we have suffered from the State of Missouri, if they were elected."
November 4, 1843
Elders Willard Richards and John Taylor spent the day helping Joseph Smith write letters to presidential candidates. These letters were sent to John C. Calhoun, General Lewis Cass, Hon. Richard M. Johnson, Hon. Henry Clay, and U.S. President Martin Van Buren. Calhoun, Clay, and Cass responded to Joseph's queries, but their answers were considered unsatisfactory.
November 7, 1843
Joseph Smith instructed Joseph C. Cole to move the tables for his school from the hall above the Red Brick Store, so Elders Willard Richards and William W. Phelps could continue working on the Prophet's history undisturbed.
November 13, 1843
Joseph Smith wrote a reply letter to James Arlington Bennet in which he addressed a mathematical approach to religion brought up in Bennet's letter.
November 15, 1843
At a mayor's court, Joseph Smith told the brethren of his intention to write a proclamation to the kings of the earth. Joseph had been commanded in a revelation (now D&C 124) almost three years earlier on January 19, 1841, to write this proclamation.
November 28, 1843
Joseph Smith and the brethren prepared a "memorial" for Congress that included an account of their history and grievances with the state of Missouri.
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