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.
Though JS returned to the city, he was still in hiding, spending Saturday, Sunday, and presumably Monday in the store. Four days later he returned to live in his home. (JS, Journal, 20, 21, and 23 Aug. 1842.)
Difficulties between JS and members of Rigdon’s family had existed for several months. Rigdon’s son-in-law George W. Robinson had recently published his withdrawal from the church, claiming that “scandalous attacks [had], at several times, been made on myself, in connection with Mr. Rigdon.” The Wasp responded by publishing statements about Robinson’s allegedly dishonest business dealings. (JS, Journal, 12 and 13 May 1842; 28 June 1842; 29 Aug. 1842; George W. Robinson, “Letter from Nauvoo,” Quincy [IL] Whig, 23 July 1842, [2]; “G. W. Robinson,” The Wasp, 30 July 1842, [2].)
Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.
The Wasp. Nauvoo, IL. Apr. 1842–Apr. 1843.
A more detailed summary of Rigdon’s sermon was published in the Times and Seasons the following month. (“Elder Rigdon, &c,” Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1842, 3:922–923 .)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
The revelation directing Rigdon to move into the city and to be faithful is recorded in Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841, in Doctrine and Covenants 103:32, 1844 ed. [D&C 124:103–110].
The Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God. Compiled by Joseph Smith. 2nd ed. Nauvoo, IL: John Taylor, 1844.
The most notable prophecies regarding the prophet who should be “raised up in the last days” are found in the second book of Nephi and the book of Ether in the Book of Mormon. (Book of Mormon, 1840 ed., 66–67, 108–110, 532 [2 Nephi 3:6–21; 27:6–26; Ether 5:1–4].)
The Book of Mormon. 3rd ed. Nauvoo, IL: Robinson and Smith, 1840.