Footnotes
“Schedule of Church Records. Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Footnotes
JS History, vol. C-1, addenda, 11; Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 441.
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
See Woodruff, Journal, 27 June 1839; Discourse, 27 June 1839; Discourse, between ca. 26 June and ca. 2 July 1839; and Discourse, 2 July 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
The featured discourse includes a discussion of how to discern between good and evil spirits. A discourse JS gave on 27 June was also on the topic of discerning spirits, and it is unclear whether JS revisited this subject in multiple discourses or whether the featured document is a different account of the 27 June discourse. (See Discourse, 27 June 1839.)
JS, Journal, 4 Aug. 1839; Woodruff, Journal, 4 Aug. 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
See Historical Introduction to Discourse, 7 July 1839; and Historical Introduction to Discourse, 28 July 1839.
Woodruff, Journal, 8 Aug. 1839.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
See Richards, Journal, 16 Jan. and 9 Apr. 1840; “From England,” Times and Seasons, May 1840, 1:110–111; and “From England,” Times and Seasons, June 1840, 1:119–121. Apostles John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff arrived in England in January 1840; several other apostles arrived in April. Richards could have copied the discourse notes of one of these apostles anytime between their 1840 arrivals and his 1841 return to the United States.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
See Revelation, ca. 7 Mar. 1831 [D&C 45:68–69].
A cholera epidemic that began in India in 1817 reached the East Coast of the United States in 1832. Cholera killed tens of thousands in the United States in the 1830s as it spread across the country. In 1834 Oliver Cowdery described the epidemic as a pestilence signaling Christ’s second coming. (“Answer,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Sept. 1834, 189; see also Jortner, “Cholera, Christ, and Jackson,” 237–238.)
The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
Jortner, Adam. “Cholera, Christ, and Jackson: The Epidemic of 1832 and the Origins of Christian Politics in Antebellum America.” Journal of the Early Republic 27, no. 2 (Summer 2007): 233–264.
JS was likely referring to rumors spread by dissenters in Kirtland, Ohio. For example, Warren Parrish and others published articles and wrote letters defaming JS and the church. (See Warren Parrish, Kirtland, OH, 5 Feb. 1838, Letter to the Editor, Painesville [OH] Republican, 15 Feb. 1838, [3]; and Stephen Burnett, Orange Township, OH, to Lyman Johnson, 15 Apr. 1838, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 64–66.)
Painesville Republican. Painesville, OH. 1836–1841.
See Daniel 6:10.
See Revelation, ca. 7 Mar. 1831 [D&C 45:69].