This parenthetical statement reflects a comment JS made 3 October 1841 during the same conference: “There shall be no more baptisms for the dead, until the ordinance can be attended to in the font of the Lord’s House; and the church shall not hold another general conference, until they can meet in said house. For thus saith the Lord!” Although church leaders continued holding conferences, none was designated a “general conference” until October 1845. (“Minutes of a Conference,” Times and Seasons, 15 Oct. 1841, 2:578, italics in original; “Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1845, 6:1008–1016; “First Meeting in the Temple,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1845, 6:1017–1018.)

Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.

Among other things, this revelation gave the injunction to build the Nauvoo House and instructions for building the temple in Nauvoo. The water-damaged manuscript also contains a brief revelation dated 20 March 1841, authorizing William Allred and Henry Miller to be stock agents for the Nauvoo House Association. This Allred and Miller revelation is recorded on page 15 of the Book of the Law of the Lord and under the entry of 20 March 1841 in JS’s manuscript history. In addition to the two revelations, the last page of the manuscript contains a note recording that JS laid the cornerstone of the Nauvoo House. (Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841, in Revelations Collection, CHL [D&C 124]; see also Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841, in Book of the Law of the Lord, 15 [D&C 124]; and JS History, vol. C-1, 1173.)

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 Book of the Law of the Lord, Record Book, 1841–1845. CHL.

JS History / Smith, Joseph, et al. History, 1838–1856. Vols. A-1–F-1 (original), A-2–E-2 (fair copy). Historian’s Office, History of the Church, 1839–ca. 1882. CHL. CR 100 102, boxes 1–7. The history for the period after 5 Aug. 1838 was composed after the death of Joseph Smith.

The charter for the Nauvoo House appeared in the 1 April 1841 issue of the Times and Seasons.

This sixty-page pamphlet, giving an account of Kimball’s first mission to England, was dictated to Robert B. Thompson by Kimball and published in 1840 while Kimball was on his second mission to England. (Robert B. Thompson, Journal of Heber C. Kimball an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints [Nauvoo, IL: Robinson and Smith, 1840]; Crawley, Descriptive Bibliography, 1:141–143.)

Thompson, Robert B. Journal of Heber C. Kimball an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Nauvoo, IL: Robinson and Smith, 1840.

Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. 3 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997–2012.

This memorial by Wight is probably a copy of his petition describing atrocities committed against the Mormons in Missouri, addressed to “the Honorable Senate of the United States.” (Lyman Wight, Petition, ca. 1839, CHL.)

Wight, Lyman. Petition, Liberty, MO, 15 Mar. 1839. CHL. MS 24547.

Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God, compiled by JS, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams (Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835).

Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God. Compiled by Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835. Also available in Robin Scott Jensen, Richard E. Turley Jr., Riley M. Lorimer, eds., Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations. Vol. 2 of the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2011).

“Whole No. 35,” dated 1 October 1841, was the most recent issue of the Times and Seasons.

Warren Foote recalled, “I was standing very near the cornerstone, when Joseph Smith came up with the manuscript of the Book of Mormon and said he wanted to put that in there, as he had had trouble enough with it.” (Foote, Autobiography, 2 Oct. 1841; see also Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” The Return, Aug. 1890, 315; John Brown, [Pleasant Grove, Utah Territory], to [John Taylor], [20 Dec. 1879], photocopy, private possession, copy at CHL; and Skousen, Original Manuscript, 5–7, 37.)

Foote, Warren. Autobiography, not before 1903. Warren Foote, Papers, 1837–1941. CHL. MS 1123, fd. 1.

The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.

Brown, John. Letter, Pleasant Grove, Utah Territory, to John Taylor, 20 Dec. 1879. Copy. First Presidency (John Taylor) Correspondence, 1877–1887. CHL. CR 1 180, box 3, fd. 6.

Skousen, Royal, ed. The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2001.

The series titled “A History, of the Persecution, of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter Day Saints in Missouri” appeared in issues 2–12 in the first volume of the Times and Seasons (Dec. 1839–Oct. 1840).

Ebenezer Robinson reported that the objects placed in the cornerstone were “encased in sheet lead to protect the contents from moisture.” (Ebenezer Robinson, “Items of Personal History of the Editor,” The Return, Aug. 1890, 315.)

The Return. Davis City, IA, 1889–1891; Richmond, MO, 1892–1893; Davis City, 1895–1896; Denver, 1898; Independence, MO, 1899–1900.

The first revelation on page 36 of the Book of the Law of the Lord directed that Fuller be appointed to serve a proselytizing mission. (JS, Journal, Dec. 1841.)