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: Beginning with the comma following “Huntington”, black ink commences. The black ink matches the ink color of the following entry.
Nauvoo Legion.
JS’s letter to Emma of this date has not been located.
TEXT: Transliteration from Taylor shorthand: “[vowel]-mm-[vowel]”. The second character, m, has an enlarged loop, which in Taylor shorthand represents two m sounds. Richards may have been thinking of the longhand spelling of “Emma” when he inscribed the enlarged m. Later in the journal Richards again apparently departed from Taylor shorthand rules to more closely follow longhand style by enlarging characters in order to represent them as capital letters. (Taylor, Universal System of Stenography, 35–36; JS, Journal, 12 June and 5 Nov. 1843.)
Taylor, Samuel. An Universal System of Stenography, or Short-Hand Writing. . . . 6th ed. London: William Baynes and Son, 1826.
Probably Alexander Neibaur, born 8 January 1808 in Ehrenbreitstein. This area became part of the Prussian empire following the Napoloeonic Wars. (“General Record of the 5th Quorum,” vol. 1, p. 10.)
“General Record of the 5th Quorum,” 1844–1881. In Seventies Quorum Records, 1844–1975. CHL. CR 499, reel 16-18.
William Clayton wrote of the day’s events: “At Prest Josephs Office. Walked with him to look at some lots &c settled with Wm Ford.” (Clayton, Journal, 8 Mar. 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.