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.
JS and other church leaders withdrew fellowship from Bennett on 11 May 1842. Bennett’s remarks on 19 May indicate he knew he was not in full fellowship at that time, although he may not have been aware of the precise action taken against him. Church leaders, having “labored with [Bennett] from time to time, to persuade him to amend his conduct, apparently to no good effect,” published a notice of the action in the 15 June issue of the Times and Seasons. (JS et al., “Notice,” Times and Seasons, 15 June 1842, 3:830; JS, Journal, 19 May 1842.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
At this meeting, JS admonished Relief Society members to deal mercifully and privately with transgressors and to encourage them to reform. (Relief Society Minute Book, 26 May 1842.)
Relief Society Minute Book / “A Book of Records Containing the Proceedings of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo,” Mar. 1842–Mar. 1844. CHL. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.
TEXT: Inscribed dateline in left margin “Friday & Saturday”, combining this with the previous entry.
The following people were nominated for the August election: “Dr. J[ohn] F. Charles for the Senate; Mark Aldridge [Aldrich], of Warsaw, and Orson Pratt, of Nauvoo, for Representatives; William Backenstos, for Sheriff; Sidney Rigdon Esq., for School Commissioner; Hiram Kimball, for County Commissioner; and Daniel H. Wells, for Coroner.” It is unclear whether JS opposed an early candidate or the final nomination for sheriff put forth by this “General” or “Union” ticket—a slate of Mormons and non-Mormons. (“Public Meeting,” The Wasp, 4 June 1842, [3].)
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, pp. 189–190.
Nauvoo Registry of Deeds. Record of Deeds, bk. A, 1842–1843. CHL. MS 3443.
Actually, the lot sold to Harmer on this date was block 123, lot 2. (Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 3 June 1842, vol. K, pp. 278–279, microfilm 954,599, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
This was the Pickaway, Ohio, lodge, although the correspondence to which the text refers indicates that initially there was some confusion about which lodge in Ohio allegedly expelled Bennett. Helm wrote a letter to King dated 7 April 1842 requesting any information King might have on the subject. In his return letter of 17 May 1842, King reported discussing the subject with “Bro Patterson,” who had preferred charges against Bennett “in Pickaway Lodge, from whence he was Expelled,” and suggested that Helm write to Patterson for more information. Meanwhile, on 4 May 1842, Grand Master Jonas wrote to George Miller, Worshipful Master of the Nauvoo lodge, saying he received a letter from “a most valued and esteemed Brother,” informing him that Bennett had been expelled from a lodge in Fairfield, Ohio. On 7 May, Jonas’s letter was read in the Nauvoo lodge, which led to an exchange of letters about the alleged expulsion. This correspondence was read and discussed in the Nauvoo lodge on 16 June 1842, at which time it was ascertained that Pickaway was the lodge in question. (Joseph King, Decatur, IL, to Meredith Helm, Springfield, IL, 17 May 1842, Letters regarding Freemasonry in Nauvoo, CHL; Abraham Jonas, Columbus, IL, to George Miller, Nauvoo, IL, 4 May 1842, copy, Letters regarding Freemasonry in Nauvoo, CHL; Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book, 7 May and 16 June 1842.)
Letters Regarding Freemasonry in Nauvoo, 1842. CHL. MS 751.
Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book. / “Record of Na[u]voo Lodge Under Dispensation,” 1842–1846. CHL. MS 3436
Probably Earl B. Nourse of Butler County, Ohio, from whom JS purchased land in Hancock County. (Nauvoo Registry of Deeds, Record of Deeds, bk. A, pp. 24–25.)
Nauvoo Registry of Deeds. Record of Deeds, bk. A, 1842–1843. CHL. MS 3443.
By 4 June 1842—the one-year anniversary of JS’s appointment as guardian of Lawrence’s children—expenses totaling $394.62 had been presented against the estate, including fees associated with collecting notes owed the estate from debtors in Canada, a bill from Josiah Butterfield (who had married Lawrence’s widow, Margaret) for boarding at least some of the Lawrence children, payments made for clothing for the children, and “interest” due Lawrence’s widow. (Madsen, “Joseph Smith as Guardian,” 181–192; JS, Journal, 4 Apr. 1842.)
Madsen, Gordon A. “Joseph Smith as Guardian: The Lawrence Estate Case.” Journal of Mormon History 36, no. 3 (2010): 172–211.
JS’s discourse to about eight thousand listeners, taken from Ezekiel 32 and 33, was a call for the nations to repent. (“The Prophet,” The Wasp, 11 June 1842, [2].)
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Trustees Land Book B, 7 June 1842, 11.
Trustees Land Books / Trustee-in-Trust, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Land Books, 1839–1845. 2 vols. CHL. MS 3437.
A horse belonging to JS.
On this date JS gave a sermon to the Female Relief Society on the importance of being careful to accept into the society only those who were righteous, and the need to be merciful and help others turn away from sin. (Relief Society Minute Book, 9 June 1842.)
Relief Society Minute Book / “A Book of Records Containing the Proceedings of the Female Relief Society of Nauvoo,” Mar. 1842–Mar. 1844. CHL. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.