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 was absent from this meeting “on account of fatigue.” Brigham Young was chosen to preside at the conference, during which at least one missionary was assigned to visit each of the counties in the state. A list of eighty-two missionaries and the locations to which they were assigned appears in “Special Conferance,” Times and Seasons, 15 June 1843, 4:240. (General Church Minutes, 3 July 1843.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
For the next three days, Hyrum Smith worked on recording the testimony he had provided at JS’s 1 July 1843 habeas corpus hearing before the Nauvoo Municipal Court. The first page of Hyrum’s testimony and eleven lines of the second page are in the handwriting of James Sloan. The remainder of the twenty-eight-page document is in the handwriting of Walker. (JS, Journal, 4–6 July 1843; Hyrum Smith, Testimony, Nauvoo, IL, 1 July 1843, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL.)