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.
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JS received a hoax letter the previous evening purporting to be from United States attorney general Hugh S. Legaré ordering JS to deliver himself to the governor of Illinois “in order to be tried before the Supreme Court of the U. S. next term” on the charge of “high treason.” (Clayton, Journal, 17 and 23 Apr. 1843; “Hugh Legare,” Washington DC, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 31 Mar. 1843, JS Collection, CHL.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Snow had left his family in Salem, Massachusetts, where he was serving a mission, for a brief visit to Nauvoo. Snow later reported that during his stay in Nauvoo, JS told him about “baptism for the dead and marriage for eternity” and that the Lord was now “requiring his chosen and proved servants to take unto themselves wives.” According to Snow, JS “introduced several of those who had been sealed to himself and others of the first elders of the Church.” (“Autobiography of Erastus Snow,” 107–110.)
“Autobiography of Erastus Snow Dictated to His Son Franklin R. Snow, in the Year 1875.” Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 14 (1923): 104–113, 161–170.
A British gold coin first issued in 1817 valued at one pound or twenty shillings. In 1842, Congress set the value of one pound at $4.84 for government transactions, meaning that the £50 donation was worth about $242. (An Act to Regulate the Value to Be Affixed to the Pound Sterling by the Treasury Department [27 July 1842], in Public Statutes at Large, 27th Cong., 2nd Sess., chap. 66, p. 496.)
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.