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.
The letter carried to Wood required that he cease functioning in his church appointment until after he appeared before a hearing of the Nauvoo high council. On 5 February, Wood appeared before the high council with evidence proving that the charges against him were false. The high council decided he should be restored to his former standing in the church. (JS and Brigham Young, Nauvoo, IL, to Daniel Wood, Pleasant Vale, IL, 23 Jan. 1842, Nauvoo High Council Papers, CHL; Wiley Watson et al., Statement, 1 Feb. 1842, Nauvoo High Council Papers, CHL; Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 5 Feb. 1842.)
Nauvoo High Council Papers, 1839–1844. CHL. LR 3102 23.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.
A notice was published in the 15 March 1842 issue of the Times and Seasons requesting Elder A. Lits “to come to Nauvoo immediately, to answer to charges which may be preferred against him.” Four months later, another notice was published in the 15 July 1842 issue: “A notice appeared in the paper some few weeks ago advertizing Elder A. Lits to return to Nauvoo. The notice was inserted by some officious person without authority; we know of no person by that name, but suppose that Elder William A. Lits is the person intended; if so, he is in perfect good standing in the church, and there are no charges preferred against him.” (“Notice,” Times and Seasons, 15 Mar. 1842, 3:734; “Notice,” Times and Seasons, 15 July 1842, 3:861.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
President of the Quorum of the Twelve.
Hyde left Nauvoo on 15 April 1840, being called by church leaders “to be our agent and representative in foreign lands, to visit the cities of London, Amsterdam, Constantinople and Jerusalem; and also other places that he may deem expedient, and converse with the priests, rulers and Elders of the Jews.” He returned to Nauvoo on 7 December 1842. (Orson Hyde and John E. Page, Quincy, IL, 28 Apr. 1840, Letter to the editor, Times and Seasons, June 1840, 1:116–117; JS, “To All People unto Whom These Presents Shall Come,” Times and Seasons, Apr. 1840, 1:86; JS, Journal, 7 Dec. 1842.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Upon being informed of this revelation, Marinda Nancy Johnson Hyde immediately moved in with the Robinsons. The Robinsons moved out on 4 February 1842, as part of the terms of the transfer of the printing office to JS. Hyde and her children remained in the house after the Robinsons left. (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” The Return, Sept. 1890, 324; Oct. 1890, 346–347; JS, Journal, 4 Feb. 1842.)
The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.