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.
TEXT: Two illegible words appear in the left margin, probably a day and a date.
Poetry, much of it by Eliza R. Snow and William W. Phelps, was a fairly regular feature in both the Times and Seasons and The Wasp.
The concern for the poor was partly a result of the substantial number of immigrating British Saints. George Miller later described the situation: “Early this spring [1841] the English emigrants . . . began to come in, in apparent poverty and in considerable numbers. Besides these, they were crowding in from the States, all poor, as the rich did not generally respond to the proclamation of the prophet to come with their effects, and assist in building the Temple and Nauvoo House. The poor had to be cared for, and labor created that they might at least earn part of their subsistence—there not being one in ten persons that could set themselves to work, to earn those indispensable things for the comfort of their families. My brethren of the Committee of the Nauvoo House Association, and the Committee of the Temple, all bore a part in the employment of laborers, and the providing food for them.” Two weeks later, both JS and Brigham Young addressed the topic of providing employment to the poor. (George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 26 June 1855, Northern Islander, 16 Aug. 1855, [3]; JS, Journal, 26 and 27 June 1842.)
Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.
JS purchased the southwest quarter of Section 25, the southeast quarter of Section 26, and the northeast quarter of Section 35, within Township 7 North, Range 8 West, for $1,500 from Ethan Kimball of Orange County, Vermont. Hiram Kimball served as Ethan Kimball’s attorney in the transaction. The “mound” was located in the southwest quarter of Section 25. JS paid Kimball two weeks later. (Hancock Co., IL, Deed Records, 27 June 1842, vol. K, pp. 329–330, microfilm 954,599, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; JS, Journal, 27 June 1842.)
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
JS’s farm.
At this meeting of the Nauvoo Masonic Lodge, evidence was presented that Bennett had previously been expelled from Masonry by the Pickaway lodge in Ohio. However, when Bennett presented laudatory character references from men in Ohio dated about the time of his alleged expulsion and claimed he was never informed of his expulsion from the Pickaway lodge, his case was postponed. By 7 July, the Nauvoo lodge was “fully satisfied” that Bennett was “an expelled mason” and resolved that the lodge regard him unworthy of fellowship. On 8 August, Bennett was expelled from the Nauvoo lodge “and from all the privileges of Masonry” for seduction, adultery, using JS’s name to justify immoral acts, perjury, embezzlement, and for illicit intercourse with a Master Mason’s wife. The Pickaway lodge minutes, which were not available to the Nauvoo lodge, indicate that while charges had been preferred against Bennett, no resolution was passed regarding his ultimate standing in that lodge. (Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book, 16 June 1842; 7 July 1842; 8 Aug. 1842; Hogan, John Cook Bennett and Pickaway Lodge No. 23, 9–12.)
Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book. / “Record of Na[u]voo Lodge Under Dispensation,” 1842–1846. CHL. MS 3436
Hogan, Mervin B. John Cook Bennett and Pickaway Lodge No. 23. No publisher, 1983.
One event Willard Richards was unable to report because of his illness was the meeting of Nauvoo citizens on 18 June in which JS, among other things, “spoke his mind in great plainness concerning the iniquity & wickedness” of John C. Bennett and “exposed him before the public.” Bennett left Nauvoo for Springfield on 21 June 1842 and returned briefly at the end of the month. (Woodruff, Journal, 18 June 1842; [Nauvoo Masonic Lodge], Nauvoo, IL, to Abraham Jonas, [Columbus, IL], 21 June 1842, Letters regarding Freemasonry in Nauvoo, CHL; “Astounding Mormon Disclosures! Letter from Gen. Bennett,” Sangamo Journal [Springfield, IL], 8 July 1842, [2].)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Letters Regarding Freemasonry in Nauvoo, 1842. CHL. MS 751.
Sangamo Journal. Springfield, IL. 1831–1847.
St. John’s Day was Masonry’s traditional festival of St. John the Baptist. According to Wilford Woodruff, the procession assembled at JS’s store and marched to the stand near the temple. He estimated six thousand people were present to hear Rigdon speak. (Woodruff, Journal, 24 June 1842.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Following the morning’s procession and meeting at the grove, the Nauvoo lodge adjourned until 2:00 p.m., at which time they reconvened and held another procession accompanied by the Nauvoo band to Alexander Mills’s Masonic Hall Tavern, where the company ate dinner. (Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book, 24 June 1842; see also “Dr. Charles Higbee,” The Wasp, 21 Jan. 1843, [3]; and “Boots and Shoes,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 13 Sept. 1843, [4].)
Nauvoo Masonic Lodge Minute Book. / “Record of Na[u]voo Lodge Under Dispensation,” 1842–1846. CHL. MS 3436
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
The drawing was made by Sutcliffe Maudsley for a map of Nauvoo.
JS and others met two weeks earlier to discuss this matter. (JS, Journal, 13 June 1842.)
In 1841 the Nauvoo House Association and the temple committee began a joint lumbering venture on the Black River in Wisconsin Territory that eventually included four mills and about six logging camps before it ceased operation in spring 1845. This operation supplied lumber for the Nauvoo House and the temple. By summer 1842, the church members working in the pineries had produced only one small raft of lumber for use in Nauvoo, and the debts of the enterprise were approaching $3,000. On 28 June it was decided that Ezra Chase should lead an expedition to the pine country. (Rowley, “Mormon Experience in the Wisconsin Pineries,” 121, 127, 129; George Miller, St. James, MI, to “Dear Brother,” 26 June 1855, Northern Islander, 16 Aug. 1855, [3]–[4]; JS, Journal, 28 June 1842.)
Rowley, Dennis. “The Mormon Experience in the Wisconsin Pineries, 1841–1845.” BYU Studies 32, nos. 1 and 2 (1992): 119–148.
Northern Islander. St. James, MI. 1850–1856.
The concern over Bennett was regarding rumors that he was conspiring to have JS kidnapped. (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Thomas Carlin, [Quincy, IL], 24 June 1842, in JS Letterbook 2, pp. 233–235.)
JS Letterbook 2 / Smith, Joseph. “Copies of Letters, &c. &c.,” 1839–1843. Joseph Smith Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155, box 2, fd. 2.