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.
Clayton recorded that the council met “on political matters, upon a letter sent by Jos. L. Heywood of Quincy.” Heywood’s letter suggested enlisting the aid of Colonel John Frierson of Quincy, Illinois, and Robert Barnwell Rhett, United States representative from South Carolina, to petition Congress for reparations related to the Saints’ losses in Missouri. “If the plan suggested of memoralizing Congress should meet your approbations,” Heywood wrote, “Please inform me. Col Frierson promises his aid in such an event & says he would go to Nauvoo & assist in arranging papers relative to such a step.” JS agreed to Heywood’s proposition: “I am glad of the offer made by Mr Frierson and shall be happy to have him step forth and investigate the whole matter,” he wrote to Heywood. “Should he come to Nauvoo we can furnish him with documents and evidence to substantiate all the necessary facts.” Frierson arrived in Nauvoo on 25 November and wrote the memorial petitioning Congress on 28 November 1843. (Clayton, Journal, 2 Nov. 1843; Joseph L. Heywood, Quincy, IL, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 23 Oct. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Joseph L. Heywood, 2 Nov. 1843, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; JS, Journal, 25 and 28 Nov. 1843; see also John Frierson, Quincy, IL, to Hon. F. H. Elmore, 12 Oct. 1843, in Nauvoo Neighbor, 5 June 1844, [2]–[3].)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
At this time, the five leading candidates for the United States presidency were Henry Clay (Whig from Kentucky and former United States secretary of state), John C. Calhoun (Democrat from South Carolina and former United States vice president), Richard M. Johnson (Democrat from Kentucky and former United States vice president), Martin Van Buren (Democrat from New York and former United States president), and Lewis Cass (Democrat from Michigan and former United States secretary of war). Two days later, JS approved the letter written to the candidates. (JS, Journal, 4 Nov. 1843.)