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.
Following his disaffection from the church in 1842, John C. Bennett charged JS with having created a “seraglio . . . divided into three distinct orders, or degrees,” the highest of which was composed of “spiritual wives” of prominent church members. Although there is no evidence to support Bennett’s description of Nauvoo plural marriage as an elaborate, three-tiered “seraglio,” JS and others had married plural wives prior to Bennett’s accusations, and a JS revelation outlining the doctrine of plural marriage had been recorded on 12 July 1843. The doctrine was not publicly taught during JS’s lifetime, however, and the term “spiritual wife” was not used in sources produced by those who participated in Nauvoo plural marriages to describe their relationships. (“Notice,” Times and Seasons, 15 June 1842, 3:830; Bennett, History of the Saints, 218–225; Joseph F. Smith, Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, CHL; JS, Journal, 12 July and 5 Oct. 1843; Revelation, 12 July 1843, in Revelations Collection, CHL [D&C 132]; Orson Pratt, “Celestial Marriage,” in Journal of Discourses, 29 Aug. 1859, 1:53–66; “Celestial Marriage,” Seer, Jan. 1853, 1:2–16; General Church Minutes, Bullock copy, 8 Apr. 1844, 30–32.)
Bennett, John C. The History of the Saints; or, an Exposé of Joe Smith and Mormonism. Boston: Leland and Whiting, 1842.
Smith, Joseph F. Affidavits about Celestial Marriage, 1869–1915. CHL. MS 3423.
Journal of Discourses. 26 vols. Liverpool: F. D. Richards, 1855–1886.
The Seer. Washington DC, Jan. 1853–June 1854; Liverpool. Jan. 1853–Aug. 1854.