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.
TEXT: Three superscript periods or dots appear after “5[th]”.
TEXT: Insertion inscribed in blue ink that matches the ink used in the entry for 8 July 1843.
Probably George Walker, one of JS’s clerks.
In his journal, Richards noted that he wrote Pitkin’s affidavit in the afternoon. (Levi Richards, Journal, 5 July 1843.)
Richards, Levi. Journals, 1840–1853. Levi Richards, Papers, 1837–1867. CHL. MS 1284, box 1.
The conference convened on 3 July. (JS, Journal, 3 July 1843.)
“The 4th of July,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 July 1843, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
In his article for the Warsaw Message, Southwick reviewed events related to JS’s arrest at Dixon by Joseph H. Reynolds and Harmon T. Wilson and JS’s eventual return to Nauvoo. Wilson later questioned the veracity of Southwick’s account, and Southwick’s rebuttal to Wilson’s charge was published in the 8 November issue of the Nauvoo Neighbor. Given Southwick’s letter to the Warsaw Message and Willard Richards’s mention here of “little exciteme[n]t,” the trip to nearby Warsaw may have been related to JS’s recent arrest at Dixon. Alternatively, the two men may have traveled to Warsaw to campaign for Adams, who was running for Hancock County probate judge in the upcoming 7 August 1843 election. (“Statement,” Warsaw [IL] Message, 12 July 1843, [1]; JS, Journal, 1 Nov. 1843; “To the Editor of the Warsaw Message,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 8 Nov. 1843, [2]–[3].)
Warsaw Message. Warsaw, IL. 1843–1844.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.