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.
The letter about Winchester was from Sybella Armstrong. Winchester, a missionary, writer, and church leader in the Philadelphia area, had been silenced and counseled to leave Philadelphia by church leaders the previous year after he was disciplined for disobeying instructions from the First Presidency. Winchester remained in the area, however, where he continued to create controversy. In her letter to JS, Armstrong accused Winchester of having slandered her character in Philadelphia and New York. “Please submit this to the Corim [Quorum] of the Twelve,” Armstrong concluded, “and may God dirrect you in adminstrg [administering] Justice to the oppressed.” According to William Clayton, JS “handed the letter to Dr [Willard] Richards saying the Twelve ought to silence Winchester.” (“Notice,” Times and Seasons, 16 May 1842, 3:798; “Notice,” Times and Seasons, 15 July 1842, 3:862; Sybella Armstrong, Philadelphia, PA, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 1 May 1843, JS Collection, CHL; Clayton, Journal, 22 May 1843; Whittaker, “East of Nauvoo,” 58–59; see also JS, Journal, 27 May 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Whittaker, David J. “East of Nauvoo: Benjamin Winchester and the Early Mormon Church.” Journal of Mormon History 21 (Fall 1995): 30–83.
According to Clayton, after visiting JS’s office, JS, Clayton, and several others rode out on the prairie to the “mound,” dined at Cornelius P. Lott’s, and rode out on the Lima road. This mound was located about five miles east of Nauvoo in the southwest quarter of section 25. (Clayton, Journal, 22 May 1843; JS, Journal, 14 June 1842.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.