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New Content on the Joseph Smith Papers Website
The Joseph Smith Papers is pleased to announce its latest web publication. This release features the entirety of Documents, Volume 15: 16 May–28 June 1844, including all annotation and introductions, as well as related documents and additional versions of documents from the time period. This is the final print volume of the Joseph Smith Papers Project, and with its inclusion on the website, all the content in the print volumes now appears in some form on this website. The release also includes just over one hundred new financial documents, thirty-four new Nauvoo Legion documents, eleven documents regarding taxes in Nauvoo, Illinois, for 1844, four new documents in the Documents series, and new and updated entries in the financial glossary and calendar of documents.
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About the Joseph Smith Papers Project
Joseph Smith (1805–1844) was the founding prophet and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Joseph Smith Papers Project is an effort to transcribe, contextualize, and publish all his writings and teachings, including revelations, translations, letters, discourses, journals, histories, and legal and financial records.
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The Joseph Smith Papers will consist of twenty-seven volumes, divided into five series: Documents, Journals, Revelations and Translations, Histories, and Administrative Records; two additional series, the Legal Records series and the Financial Records series, will be published online.