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Table of Contents

  • Introduction

  • Part 1: 1830–1845

    • 1.1 Revelation, July 1830 (Doctrine and Covenants 25)

    • 1.2 Nauvoo Relief Society Minute Book

      • 1.2.1 March 17, 1842

      • 1.2.2 March 24, 1842

      • 1.2.3 March 31, 1842

      • 1.2.4 April 14, 1842

      • 1.2.5 March 31 and 29, 1842, Donations

      • 1.2.6 April 19, 1842

      • 1.2.7 April 28, 1842

      • 1.2.8 May 12, 1842

      • 1.2.9 May 19, 1842

      • 1.2.10 May 26, 1842

      • 1.2.11 May 27, 1842

      • 1.2.12 June 9, 1842

      • 1.2.13 June 23, 1842

      • 1.2.14 July 7, 1842

      • 1.2.15 July 14, 1842

      • 1.2.16 August 4, 1842

      • 1.2.17 August 31, 1842

      • 1.2.18 September 28, 1842

      • 1.2.19 Copied Documents, March 31 and April 2, 1842

      • 1.2.20 June 16, 1843

      • 1.2.21 July 7, 1843

      • 1.2.22 July 15, 1843

      • 1.2.23 July 21, 1843

      • 1.2.24 July 28, 1843

      • 1.2.25 August 5, 1843

      • 1.2.26 August 13, 1843

      • 1.2.27 August 1843, Undated Meeting

      • 1.2.28 September 2, 1843

      • 1.2.29 September 1843, Eleventh Meeting of the Society, Second Ward

      • 1.2.30 September 15, 1843, Minutes of the Twelfth Meeting of the F R Society

      • 1.2.31 September 15, 1843, Minutes of the Thirteenth Meeting of the Society

      • 1.2.32 October 14, 1843

      • 1.2.33 March 9, 1844

      • 1.2.34 March 16, 1844

    • 1.3 “Ladies’ Relief Society,” April 1, 1842

    • 1.4 Eliza R. Snow, “The Female Relief Society of Nauvoo,” July 1, 1842

    • 1.5 Nauvoo Female Relief Society, Petition to Thomas Carlin, circa July 22, 1842

    • 1.6 Emma Smith and Others, Statement, October 1, 1842

    • 1.7 Sarah M. Cleveland, Letter to the Nauvoo Female Relief Society, May 1, 1843

    • 1.8 Nauvoo Female Relief Society, Report, June 30, 1843

    • 1.9 Susan Cuthbertson, Application to Nauvoo Female Relief Society, circa September 1843

    • 1.10 William W. Phelps with Emma Smith Revisions, “The Voice of Innocence from Nauvoo,” February–March 1844

    • 1.11 Ellen Briggs Douglas, Letter to Family Members, April 14, 1844

    • 1.12 Boston Female Penny and Sewing Society, Minutes, January 28, 1845

    • 1.13 Brigham Young, Discourses, March 9, 1845 (Excerpts)

    • 1.14 Eliza R. Snow, “My Father in Heaven,” October 1845

  • Part 2: 1854–1866

    • 2.1 Great Salt Lake City Relief Society, Minutes, January–June 1854

    • 2.2 Joseph Smith, Discourses to Nauvoo Female Relief Society, March 31 and April 28, 1842, as Revised for “History of Joseph Smith,” September 5 and 19, 1855

    • 2.3 Salt Lake City Fourteenth Ward Relief Society, Report, 1856–1858, as Published in “Relief Society in the Early Days,” July 1, 1895

    • 2.4 Lucy Meserve Smith, Account of Relief Society in 1856, as Recorded in “Historical Sketches,” June 12, 1889 (Excerpt)

    • 2.5 Priscilla Merriman Evans, Account of Relief Society in 1856–1870, as Recorded in Autobiography, circa 1907 (Excerpt)

    • 2.6 Cedar City Ward Relief Society, Minutes, September 10 and December 10, 1857, and March 11, 1858

  • Part 3: 1867–1879

    • 3.1 Brigham Young, Discourse, December 8, 1867 (Excerpt)

    • 3.2 “Female Relief Societies,” December 10, 1867 (Excerpt)

    • 3.3 Salt Lake City Seventh Ward Relief Society, Minutes, January 4 and 28, 1868

    • 3.4 Brigham Young, Discourse, April 8, 1868 (Excerpt)

    • 3.5 Eliza R. Snow, Account of 1868 Commission, as Recorded in “Sketch of My Life,” April 13, 1885 (Excerpt)

    • 3.6 Eliza R. Snow, “Female Relief Society,” April 18 and 20, 1868

    • 3.7 Salt Lake City Thirteenth Ward Relief Society, Minutes, April 18, 1868

    • 3.8 Eliza R. Snow, Letter to Augusta B. Smith, circa May 7, 1868

    • 3.9 Sarah M. Kimball and Eliza R. Snow, “Duty of Officers of F R Society,” circa May 1868

    • 3.10 Sarah M. Kimball, Annual Message, circa December 1868

    • 3.11 Brigham Young, Discourse, February 4, 1869

    • 3.12 Minutes of “Ladies Mass Meeting,” January 6, 1870

    • 3.13 Minutes of “Great Indignation Meeting,” January 13, 1870

    • 3.14 “Female Suffrage in Utah,” February 8, 1870

    • 3.15 Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Meeting, Minutes, February 10, 1870

    • 3.16 Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Meeting, Minutes, February 19, 1870

    • 3.17 Eliza R. Snow and Others, Letter to Stephen A. Mann, and Stephen A. Mann Reply, February 19, 1870

    • 3.18 Young Ladies’ Department of the Ladies’ Cooperative Retrenchment Association, Resolutions, May 27, 1870

    • 3.19 Nephi Ward Relief Society, Minutes, August–September 1870

    • 3.20 Eliza R. Snow, Discourse, July 24, 1871

    • 3.21 “Woman’s Exponent. A Utah Ladies’ Journal,” June 1, 1872

    • 3.22 Hyrum Ward Relief Society, Report, October 9, 1872

    • 3.23 Eliza R. Snow, Discourse, August 14, 1873

    • 3.24 Eliza R. Snow, Report to Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, March 1876

    • 3.25 Committees on the Grain Movement, Minutes, November 17, 1876

    • 3.26 Weber Stake Relief Society, Minutes, July 19, 1877

    • 3.27 John Taylor, Discourse, October 21, 1877 (Excerpt)

    • 3.28 Weber Stake Relief Society, Minutes, October 30, 1877

    • 3.29 Mary Isabella Horne and Others, Letter to Salt Lake Stake Relief Society, January 15, 1878

    • 3.30 Aurelia Spencer Rogers, Reminiscences of August 1878, as Published in “History of Primary Work,” 1898

  • Part 4: 1880–1892

    • 4.1 Emmeline B. Wells, “Women’s Organizations,” January 15, 1880

    • 4.2 Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Circular Letter, April 16, 1880 (Excerpt)

    • 4.3 Jane Wilkie Hooper Blood, Diary Entries for May 1880–September 1883 (Excerpts)

    • 4.4 Salt Lake Stake Relief Society, Report, June 18 and 19, 1880

    • 4.5 General Relief Society Meeting, Report, July 17, 1880

    • 4.6 Belinda Marden Pratt, Diary Entry, September 5, 1880

    • 4.7 Indianola Ward Relief Society, Minutes, September 16, 1880

    • 4.8 Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Draft Circular Letter, October 6, 1880 (Excerpt)

    • 4.9 Eliza R. Snow, “Instructions to the Secretaries of the Relief Society,” January 1882

    • 4.10 Sarah M. Kimball, Reminiscence, March 17, 1882

    • 4.11 Report of Deseret Hospital Dedication, July 17, 1882

    • 4.12 Eliza R. Snow and Sarah M. Kimball, “The Relief Society,” March 1, 1883

    • 4.13 Sandwich Islands Relief Society, Report, October 5, 1883

    • 4.14 Eliza R. Snow, “To the Branches of the Relief Society,” September 12, 1884

    • 4.15 “Mormon” Women’s Protest, 1886 (Excerpt)

    • 4.16 Eliza R. Snow, Letter to Salt Lake Stake Relief Society, December 9, 1886

    • 4.17 Emma Anderson Liljenquist, Reminiscences of 1887, in “The Story of My Life,” circa 1948 (Excerpt)

    • 4.18 Emmeline B. Wells, Letter to Zina D. H. Young, April 24, 1888

    • 4.19 Wilford Woodruff, Letter to Emmeline B. Wells, April 27, 1888

    • 4.20 Franklin D. Richards, Discourse, July 19, 1888

    • 4.21 San Juan Stake Relief Society, Report, November 27, 1888

    • 4.22 Marion E. Scoles, Letter to the Exponent, circa December 1888

    • 4.23 Zina D. H. Young, Letter to Eliza Stewart Udall, March 19, 1889, and Eliza Stewart Udall Reply, March 31, 1889

    • 4.24 Zina D. H. Young, Discourse, April 6, 1889

    • 4.25 Emery Stake Relief Society, Report, October 17, 1890

    • 4.26 Zina Y. Card, Letter to the Exponent, November 20, 1890

    • 4.27 Emmeline B. Wells, “A Glimpse of Washington,” March 1, 1891

    • 4.28 Report of Relief Society Jubilee, March 17, 1892

  • Reference Materials

    • Acknowledgments

    • General Presidencies of the Relief Society, Young Ladies’ Mutual Improvement Association, and Primary Association, 1842–1892

    • Works Cited

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