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.
See Luke 24:36–39.
On 16 April 1839, JS was allowed to escape from the custody of Missouri officials and arrived in Quincy, Illinois, on 22 April. In October 1839, JS left western Illinois for Washington DC with Sidney Rigdon, Orrin Porter Rockwell, and Elias Higbee to seek redress from United States president Martin Van Buren and Congress for damages suffered during the Missouri conflict. In November 1839, the men stopped in Springfield, Illinois, where Adams wrote a letter of introduction to Van Buren for them. Adams wrote that the outrages suffered by the Saints were “unparalleled in the annals of civilized communities,” and he encouraged Van Buren to “hear with patience and advise with a desire to sustain the rights of all the citizens of our great Republic.” (JS, Journal, 16 and 22–23 Apr. 1839; James Adams, Springfield, IL, to Martin Van Buren, Washington DC, 9 Nov. 1839, Martin Van Buren, Papers, Library of Congress, Washington DC.)
TEXT: Changes in ink density and line spacing suggest that this paragraph and the paragraph at the end of the following journal entry were later additions, apparently made at the same time.
Rogers, Pratt, Hanks, and Grouard had been appointed and set apart to serve this mission in May 1843. Hanks died en route and was buried at sea, while the others served missions of varying lengths in what would become French Polynesia rather than in the Sandwich Islands. (JS, Journal, 23 May 1843; Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 11 and 23 May 1843; Pratt, Journal, 20 Sept. 1843– 24 Mar. 1847; Rogers, Journal, 1 June 1843–1 Apr. 1844.)
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
Pratt, Addison. Journals, 1843–1852. Addison Pratt, Autobiography and Journals, 1843–1852. CHL. MS 8226, fds. 4–11.Pratt, Addison. Autobiography and Journals, 1843–1852. CHL.
Rogers, Noah. Journal, 1843–1845. CHL. MS 1389.