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.
Pratt’s donation appears to have prompted a general call to church members to establish a museum in Nauvoo. The request was made in a note delivered to the Times and Seasons office by one of JS’s clerks. Evidently referencing JS’s 19 January 1841 revelation, which called for church members to come to Nauvoo with their “antiquities” and “precious things of the earth” to build the Nauvoo temple, the note observed that “it appears to be the duty of the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, to bring to Nauvoo, their precious things, such as antiquities, and . . . curiosities, whether animal, vegetable, or metalic . . . for the purpose of establishing a Museum of the great things of God, and the inventions of men, at Nauvoo.” The note appeared in the 15 May issue of the Times and Seasons (which was published late). The later Nauvoo Seventies Library and Institute Association, which was authorized to receive “useful and curious specimens of the arts and sciences, also all kinds of Natural curiosities and antiquities” as payment for stock, may have served as a museum for a time. (“To the Saints Among All Nations,” Times and Seasons, 15 May 1843, 4:201–203, italics in original; “Extracts,” Times and Seasons, 1 June 1841, 2:426; Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 14 Dec. 1844, 225–226; Leonard, “Antiquities, Curiosities, and Latter-day Saint Museums,” 291–302.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Leonard, Glen M. “Antiquities, Curiosities, and Latter-day Saint Museums.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 291–325. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
JS issued a warrant for Fuller’s arrest on 19 May 1843. (JS, Journal, 19 May 1843.)