Footnotes
The page numbers on pages 19–71, 86–90, and 122–125 are in the handwriting of Willard Richards; on pages 72–85, 91–121, 126–167, and 171–477, in the handwriting of William Clayton; and on pages 168–170, in the handwriting of Erastus Derby. There are two pages numbered 453. Pages 476–477 constitute the last leaf of lined paper. The headers generally consist of a year or a month and year. The headers inscribed on pages 26–27, 29–71, 88–95, 119, and 121–126 are in the handwriting of Richards; the headers inscribed on pages 28, 72–87, 96–118, 120, 127–167, and 172–215 are in the handwriting of Clayton; pages 168–171, which were inscribed by Derby, have no headers. A few other pages are missing headers.
For example, page 135 points the reader to page 164, which begins by noting the continuation from page 135.
This serialized history drew on the journals herein, beginning with the 4 July 1855 issue of the Deseret News and with the 3 January 1857 issue of the LDS Millennial Star.
Most of these now-erased graphite inscriptions are recoverable with bright white light and magnification. Pages 209–215, which were not erased, represent the state of the journal entries generally when they were used for drafting the “History of Joseph Smith.”
Tithing and Donation Record, 1844–1846, CHL; Trustee-in-trust, Index and Accounts, 1841–1847, CHL.
Trustee-in-Trust. Index and Accounts, 1841–1847. CHL.
Historian’s Office, “Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Inventory. Historians Office. G. S. L. City April 1.1857,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Historian’s Office Inventory G. S. L. City March 19. 1858,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Historian’s Office Catalogue Book March 1858,” [11], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Emmeline B. Wells, “Salt Lake Stake Relief Society Conference,” Women’s Exponent, 1 July 1880, 9:22.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970, First Presidency, General Administration Files, CHL.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970. First Presidency, General Administration Files, 1921–1972. CHL.
Letter of transfer, Salt Lake City, UT, 8 Jan. 2010, CHL.
Letter of Transfer, Salt Lake City, UT, 8 Jan. 2010. CHL.
| Date | Manuscript Page | Page in JSP, J2 |
| December 1841 | 26, 31, 33, 36, 39, 43–44 | 10–21 |
| Dec. 1841 | 36 | 16 |
| 11–13 Dec. 1841 | 33 | 14–15 |
| 13 Dec. 1841 | 26, 33 | 10–11, 15–16 |
| 14 Dec. 1841 | 26 | 11 |
| 15–16 Dec. 1841 | 31 | 13–14 |
| 17 Dec. 1841 | 26 | 11 |
| 22 Dec. 1841 | 36 | 16–17 |
| 24–28 Dec. 1841 | 39 | 17–19 |
| 29–31 Dec. 1841 | 43–44 | 19–21 |
| January 1842 | 31, 43–44, 48, 56–60, 66–67 | 14, 21–32, 36–38 |
| 1 Jan. 1842 | 44 | 21 |
| 4 Jan. 1842 | 48 | 23–24 |
| 5 Jan. 1842 | 31, 44 | 14, 21 |
| 6 Jan. 1842 | 57 | 25–26 |
| 12–16 Jan. 1842 | 48 | 24 |
| 15 Jan. 1842 | 58 | 26–27 |
| 16 Jan. 1842 | 48, 58 | 24, 27 |
| 17 Jan. 1842 | 43, 56, 58 | 20–21, 24–25, 27 |
| 18–22 Jan. 1842 | 58 | 27–30 |
| 23 Jan. 1842 | 59, 66 | 30, 36–37 |
| 24 Jan. 1842 | 59 | 30 |
| 25 Jan. 1842 | 59, 66 | 30, 37 |
| 26–27 Jan. 1842 | 59 | 30–31 |
| 28 Jan. 1842 | 59, 67 | 31, 38 |
| 29–31 Jan. 1842 | 60 | 31–32 |
| February–July 1842 | 60–61, 88–95, 122–128 | 32–36, 38–80 |
| August 1842 | 128–135, 164–167, 179–184 | 80–99, 115–124 |
| 3–15 Aug. 1842 | 128–135 | 80–92 |
| 16 Aug. 1842 | 135, 164–165 | 93–96 |
| 17–21 Aug. 1842 | 165–167 | 96–99 |
| Copied Correspondence | 168–178 | 100–114 |
| 23–31 Aug. 1842 | 179–184 | 115–124 |
| September–December 1842 | 184–215 | 124–183 |
Footnotes
One of Richards’s entries records that he was ill “& did not take notes.” Other entries, such as those dictated by JS to William Clayton while in hiding, are clearly copies of previously inscribed notes. (JS, Journal, 17 June 1842; 16 and 23 Aug. 1842.)
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 16; Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:626.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 18; Clayton, Journal, 10 Feb. 1843.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
JS, Kirtland, OH, to William W. Phelps, [Independence, MO], 27 Nov. 1832, in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 1–2 [D&C 85:1–2, 5]; 2 Chronicles 17:9; 34:14; Nehemiah 9:3.
JS Letterbook 1 / Smith, Joseph. “Letter Book A,” 1832–1835. Joseph Smith Collection. CHL. MS 155, box 2, fd. 1.
See also the entry for 29 June 1842, in which Richards transferred “this Journal” to his assistant William Clayton.
Pages 207–209, for example, contain such inscriptions. Willard Richards’s entry for 10 March 1842 also indicates contemporaneous inscription.
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842.
Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:626.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
JS, Journal, 8 Aug. 1842; see also Appendix 1.
JS, Journal, 21 Dec. 1842.
Richards, Journal, 13 Jan. 1843.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
See JS, Journal, 13 Dec. 1841.
TEXT: Written in larger handwriting and double underlined.
The Book of Mormon, 3rd ed. (Nauvoo, IL: Robinson and Smith, 1840). Page 54 of the “American stereotype edition” begins with the text corresponding to 1 Nephi 20:14 in the 1981 edition.
According to Wilford Woodruff, JS began the previous month to proofread the first sixty pages of the Book of Mormon for republication. (Woodruff, Journal, 5 Dec. 1841.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
The first stereotype edition of the Book of Mormon (third American edition) was published in 1840. The corrections mentioned here were not included in the fourth American edition, which was published August 1842 in Nauvoo from the same plates as the third edition. (Crawley, Descriptive Bibliography, 1:205.)
Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. 3 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997–2012.
See Romans 6:1–2.
JS and John C. Bennett debated the same topics the following week. (JS, Journal, 25 Jan. 1842.)
JS had asked George Miller to go to Kentucky “on a preaching excursion, and sell some property” Miller owned there, the proceeds of which were to be applied toward building the Nauvoo temple and Nauvoo House. (George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 26 June 1855, Northern Islander, 16 Aug. 1855, [3]–[4].)
Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.
JS, “Special Notice,” Times and Seasons, 15 Jan. 1842, 3:667 .
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
JS.
One of the largest acquisitions of land upon which Nauvoo was to be built occurred on 12 August 1839, when JS, Hyrum Smith, and Sidney Rigdon contracted to purchase “upwards of five hundred acres” from Connecticut land speculators Horace Hotchkiss, John Gillett, and Smith Tuttle for $53,500.a In spring 1841, Hyrum Smith and Galland were sent east with a power of attorney to procure means to pay notes that were due. Smith returned to Nauvoo by 1 May 1841, and Galland continued alone.b In August, JS learned that Galland had not paid Hotchkiss. By year’s end Galland returned to his home at Keokuk, Iowa Territory, without making an accounting of his trip east. In this context, a “Special conference” convened on 20 January 1842. Two days prior to the conference JS revoked Galland’s power of attorney to transact business for the church.c A week later, on 27 January 1842, Brigham Young and James Ivins “returned a favorable report” from Galland, and JS met with him on 2 February 1842. Although Galland was not actively involved in the church after this time, his relations with JS, Young, and other church leaders remained positive, suggesting that he had satisfied them regarding his activities in the east.d
(aSee Promissory notes, JS et al. to Horace Hotchkiss; and JS et al. to John Gillett and Smith Tuttle, 12 Aug. 1839, JS Collection, CHL; Brigham Young et al., “Letter from Orson Hyde,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:568. b Editorial, Times and Seasons, 1 May 1841, 2:403; Power of attorney, JS to Hyrum Smith and Isaac Galland, Hancock Co., IL, 1 Feb. 1841, private possession, copy at CHL. cJS, Nauvoo, IL, to Horace Hotchkiss, Fair Haven, CT, 25 Aug. 1841, draft, JS Collection, CHL; Horace Hotchkiss, Fair Haven, CT, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 24 July 1841, JS Collection, CHL; JS, “Special Notice,” Times and Seasons, 15 Jan. 1842, 3:667 . dJS, Journal, 27 Jan. and 2 Feb. 1842; see also Cook, “Isaac Galland,” 278–282.)Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Smith, Joseph. Power of Attorney, to Isaac Galland and Hyrum Smith, Hancock Co., IL, 1 Feb. 1841. Private possession. Copy at CHL. MS 27082.
Cook, Lyndon W. “Isaac Galland—Mormon Benefactor.” BYU Studies 19 (Spring 1979): 261–284.
Willard Richards, recorder for the temple, published a notice that the recorder’s office would be open for the reception of tithing and consecrations only on Saturdays in order to give the trustee (JS) and the recorder (Richards) the necessary time to “arrange the Book of Mormon, New Translation of the Bible, Hymn Book, and Doctrine and Covenants for the press.” (Willard Richards, “Tithings and Consecrations for the Temple of the Lord,” Times and Seasons, 15 Jan. 1842, 3:667.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The revised rules dealt with the “order of proceeding in Council, the rights & priviledges of the Members, & Duties of the Officers &c.” (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 22 Jan. 1842, 42.)
Nauvoo City Council Minute Book / Nauvoo City Council. “A Record of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Nauvoo Handcock County, State of Illinois, Commencing A.D. 1841,” ca. 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3435.
The office of vice mayor to which JS was elected was created by an ordinance of the city council passed on this date. The vice mayor was to be elected by the city council, and the principal responsibility of the office was to preside over the city council in the absence of the mayor. (Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 22 Jan. 1842, 46.)
Nauvoo City Council Minute Book / Nauvoo City Council. “A Record of the Proceedings of the City Council of the City of Nauvoo Handcock County, State of Illinois, Commencing A.D. 1841,” ca. 1841–1845. CHL. MS 3435.