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.
JS revelations dictated in October and November 1831 used the term “everlasting covenant” to refer to “the fulness of [the] Gospel,” and on 16 May 1843, JS used the term to refer to eternal marriage. A revelation recorded in July 1843 defines “the new and everlasting covena[n]t” in broad terms, explaining that “all covnants, contracts, bonds, obligations, oaths, vows, performances, connexions, associations or expectations that are not made and entered into and Sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise of him who is anointed . . . are of no efficacy, virtue or force in and after the resurrection from the dead for all contracts that are not made unto this end have an end when men are dead.” The manuscript history of Brigham Young notes that in addition to giving and receiving instruction at this meeting, JS “administered” to those present “the first ordinances of endowment.” The eight men mentioned in the journal entry—including JS—had all received the endowment a year earlier, on 4–5 May 1842. (Revelation, 29 Oct. 1831, in Doctrine and Covenants 74:1, 1835 ed. [D&C 66:2]; Revelation, 3 Nov. 1831, in Doctrine and Covenants 100:6, 1835 ed. [D&C 133:57]; Editorial Note before 16 May 1843 entry; Revelation, 12 July 1843, in Revelations Collection, CHL [D&C 132:7]; Historian’s Office, Brigham Young History Drafts, 69; JS, Journal, 4–5 May 1842.)
Historian’s Office. Brigham Young History Drafts, 1856–1858. CHL. CR 100 475, box 1, fd. 5.