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.
TEXT: Possibly “13 15”.
Published in the 18 January issue of the Quincy Herald, the “Libellous letter” was actually addressed to John H. Pettit, editor of that newspaper. The letter deplored JS’s discharge from arrest on a writ of habeas corpus in Springfield earlier that month, charged Judge Nathaniel Pope and United States district attorney Justin Butterfield with failing to fulfill their official duties, and called into question the virtue of the ladies who had attended the hearing. While the editor of the Alton Telegraph condemned the letter as libelous, he expressed continuing contempt for JS. (“Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet,” Quincy [IL] Herald, 18 Jan. 1843, [2]; “The Calumniators Detected,” Alton [IL] Telegraph and Democratic Review, 11 Feb. 1843, [2]; Notice, Alton Telegraph and Democratic Review, 18 Feb. 1843, [3]; “The Quincy Herald, Judge Pope, the Discharge of Joe Smith,” Alton Telegraph and Democratic Review, 28 Jan. 1843, [2].)
Quincy Herald. Quincy, IL. 1841–before 1851.
Alton Telegraph and Democratic Review. Alton, IL. 1841–1850.
Cowan visited JS five days earlier, requesting a “talented Mormn preacher” to move to Shokokon, where he would be at “liberty to invite as many Mormons to settle in that place as May please to so to do.” (JS, Journal, 10 Feb. 1843.)