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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Willard Richards’s first draft of his sixth “Truthiana” letter focused on the Nauvoo Legion, casting Nauvoo and the Saints in a militaristic light many residents of Illinois would have found offensive. Richards rewrote the letter four days later, changing the emphasis to building the Nauvoo House and the strong cooperative ethic of converts immigrating to Nauvoo. (“Truthiana,” 1843, draft, CHL; Richards, Journal, 27 Apr. 1843; Willard Richards [Viator, pseud.], Nauvoo, IL, 22 Apr. 1843, Letter to the editor, Boston Daily Bee, 22 May 1843, [2].)
“Truthiana,” 1843. Draft. CHL. MS 15537.
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Boston Daily Bee. Boston. 1842–1857.
The “special conference” was the conference that began on 6 April 1843. Whether JS again dictated the minutes of the 6–9 April 1843 special conference is unclear. In addition to the account of the conference recorded in JS’s journal and the published account in the Times and Seasons, four sets of minutes, differing in various ways, are contained in General Church Minutes. (JS, Journal, 6–9 Apr. 1843.)
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Pursuant to the decision of the special conference held on 6 April 1843, JS on 19 April directed the Quorum of the Twelve to go on a mission to collect funds for building the Nauvoo House. (JS, Journal, 6 and 19 Apr. 1843; “Special Conference,” Times and Seasons, 1 May 1843, 4:182–183.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.