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.
See Luke 15:16. Cowdery, one of the Three Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, had been excommunicated from the church in 1838 and was living in Tiffin, Ohio. Prior to JS’s request that members of the Quorum of the Twelve write to Cowdery, Phineas Young, who kept in contact with Cowdery, had written to Brigham Young and Willard Richards that Cowdery’s “heart is still with his old friends” and that Phineas believed Cowdery “would be with them in person . . . soon” if misunderstandings were resolved. (JS, Journal, 12 Apr. 1838; Phineas Young to Brigham Young and Willard Richards, 14 Dec. 1842, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL.)
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
TEXT: Possibly “not” or “mst”.
Hyde returned from a mission to Europe and Jerusalem in December 1842. (JS, Journal, 7 Dec. 1842.)
In their letter, dated 19 April 1843, the Twelve told Cowdery that they “thought perhaps our old, long esteemed friend might by this time have felt his lonely solitary situation . . . & that he might have a disposition to return.” If such was the case, they assured him, “your brethren are ready to receive you.” Cowdery responded to the Twelve’s invitation—which was not mailed from Nauvoo until 10 December 1843—on 25 December 1843, briefly alluding to “ambitious and wicked men” whose false charges had resulted in his excommunication. Assuring the Twelve that “I entertain no unkindly feelings toward you, or either of you,” Cowdery quietly passed over their invitation to return to the church at that time; he later returned to the church and was rebaptized in 1848. (Brigham Young et al., Nauvoo, IL, to Oliver Cowdery, 19 Apr. 1843, copy, Luna Eunice Caroline Young Thatcher, Collection, CHL, underlining in original; Oliver Cowdery to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 25 Dec. 1843, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL.)
Thatcher, Luna Eunice Caroline Young. Collection, 1835–1876. CHL. MS 6140.
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.