Willard Richards penned this note on 2 December 1842. (Richards, Journal, 2 Dec. 1842.) A draft of Note B in Richards’s hand, evidently written at the time the incident was related by JS, is written on a sheet of paper kept with History, circa 1841, fair copy.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.