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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Transliteration from Taylor shorthand: “m-r-d t-[vowel] r r-d-s n w-l-r-d r-ch-d<-s> m-r-d t s-s-n l-p-t-r-t”. The shorthand symbol for n is also used to represent the word and. Rhoda Richards later reported that she was “married or sealed” to JS by Willard Richards “according to the celestial law, by his own request under the inspiration of divine revelation.” (Taylor, Universal System of Stenography, plate 1; Rhoda Richards, Affidavit, Salt Lake Co., Utah Territory, 1 May 1869, in Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1:17; Tullidge, Women of Mormondom, 422; Woodruff, Historian’s Private Journal, 12 June 1843.)
Taylor, Samuel. An Universal System of Stenography, or Short-Hand Writing. . . . 6th ed. London: William Baynes and Son, 1826.
Smith, Joseph F. Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915. CHL. MS 3423.
Tullidge, Edward W. The Women of Mormondom. New York: Tullidge and Crandall, 1877.
Woodruff, Wilford. Historian’s Private Journal, 1858–1878. CHL. MS 8563.
Cowles had been on a mission to Massachusetts and New Hampshire. His absence from Nauvoo high council meetings after 22 October 1842 suggests he left Nauvoo that fall. (Austin Cowles, Peterborough, NH, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 13 Mar. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; Nauvoo High Council Minutes, Oct. 1842–July 1843.)
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.