Lavina F. Anderson

Lavina Fielding Anderson is Editor of the Journal of Mormon History. The author expresses grateful appreciation to David Lawrence McKay and Mildred Calderwood McKay for permission to use the typescripts in their possession of President McKay’s 1920–21 tour of world mission; to George Richards Cannon and Alice Cannon Hicken for sharing material about their father, Hugh J. Cannon; to Alice Barrett Smith and Donald E. Smith for interest in this project and assistance with E. Wesley Smith family materials; to Carol Hurst Briggs and especially Cleo Hurst Bailey, who generously allowed access to the personal papers and photographs of Samuel Harris Hurst Jr., and Frederick William Hurst; to members of David Keola Kailimai’s family who responded to telephone interviews: Gerianne Momilani Lai Yuke Carr, Gail Pilialoha Kailimai Kapuni, Abigail Kahanu Kailimai Kailimai, and especially Larraine Hoemi Kailimai Carr, who also supplied genealogical information; to D. Arthur Haycock for his personal reminiscences about President McKay’s 1955 retelling of this event and for his recollections of David Keola Kailimai; to R. Lanier Britsch for responding generously with bibliographic assistance; to the staff of the LDS Historical Department Archives, particularly Ronald Watt and Ronald O. Barney, and to Mrs. Leone Doxey, for searching her husband’s New Zealand papers.