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 “&c”.
The perpetual nature of the Nauvoo charter was a topic of discussion three days earlier. (JS, Journal, 28 Dec. 1842.)
Darby intended to follow James Brewster. In 1837, at age ten, Brewster claimed to have the gifts of prophesying and receiving revelations. In 1842 he published a pamphlet titled The Words of Righteousness to All Men, purporting to be an abridgment of the lost books of Esdras. Brewster and many followers began moving to California in 1850, but most, including Brewster, never reached California. Various difficulties caused the party to instead stop in New Mexico, and a short-lived attempt was made to create a settlement there. Brewster ultimately returned to Illinois. (“Notice,” Times and Seasons, 1 Dec. 1842, 4:32; Brewster, Words of Righteousness; Vogel, “James Colin Brewster,” 120–139.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Brewster, James C. The Words of Righteousness to All Men, Written from One of the Books of Esdras, . . . Springfield, IL: Ballard and Roberts, 1842.
Vogel, Dan. “James Colin Brewster: The Boy Prophet Who Challenged Mormon Authority.” In Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History, edited by Roger D. Launius and Linda Thatcher, 120–139. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.
The prophet Micaiah’s instructions were to Ahab, not to Hezekiah. (See 1 Kings 22:15; and 2 Chronicles 18:14.)