Footnotes
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.
The labels on the spines of the four volumes read respectively as follows: “Joseph Smith’s Journal—1842–3 by Willard Richards” (book 1); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843” (book 2); “Joseph Smith’s Journal by W. Richards 1843–4” (book 3); and “W. Richards’ Journal 1844 Vol. 4” (book 4). Richards kept JS’s journal in the front of book 4, and after JS’s death Richards kept his own journal in the back of the volume.
“Schedule of Church Records, Nauvoo 1846,” [1], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
“Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; “Contents of the Historian and Recorder’s Office G. S. L. City July 1858,” 2; “Index of Records and Journals in the Historian’s Office 1878,” [11]–[12], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL; Johnson, Register of the Joseph Smith Collection, 7.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Johnson, Jeffery O. Register of the Joseph Smith Collection in the Church Archives, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Salt Lake City: Historical Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1973.
Footnotes
Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, Dec. 1841–Dec. 1842.
Source Note to JS, Journal, 1835–1836; Source Note to JS, Journal, Mar.–Sept. 1838.
See Appendix 3.
The Illinois state legislature in 1840 granted that the Nauvoo city charter would “have perpetual succession.” Three weeks earlier the Illinois House of Representatives debated whether to alter the Nauvoo charter to remove some of the powers granted therein. Governor Thomas Ford also discussed the issue in his inaugural address on 8 December 1842. (Act to Incorporate the City of Nauvoo, 16 Dec. 1840, sec. 1; JS, Journal, 9–20 Dec. 1842; “Gov. Ford’s Inaugural Address,” Sangamo Journal [Springfield, IL], 15 Dec. 1842, [1].)
Sangamo Journal. Springfield, IL. 1831–1847.
The idea that the sun is a “governing planet” is found in the Book of Abraham, which JS had recently published. (“A Fac-simile from the Book of Abraham, No. 2,” Times and Seasons, 15 Mar. 1842, 3:720–721 [Abraham, facsimile 2].)