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: At this point, an “X” appears in the left margin.
The 13 November letter to Bennet, mentioned here and in the following paragraph, responded to one from Bennet dated 24 October 1843. JS had received Bennet’s letter by 9 November 1843 and on that day requested that it be answered. (See JS, Journal, 9 Nov. 1843.)
TEXT: At this point, an “X” appears in the left margin.
This probably refers to the bound manuscript “Grammar & Alphabet of the Egyptian Language,” produced several years earlier in Kirtland, Ohio. The 13 November letter to Bennet featured phrases from several foreign languages, including a phrase identified as Egyptian: “Jah-oh-eh, Enish-go-on-dosh, Flo-ees-Flos-is-is.” When this letter was copied into JS’s history, this phrase was followed by its translation: “O the earth! The power of attraction, and the moon passing between her and the sun.” The components of this phrase, as well as several symbols inscribed in the left margin of the extant copy of this letter, correspond to symbols and their assigned meanings found in the “Grammar & Alphabet.” More of a key to symbols than a traditional grammar, the “Grammar & Alphabet” consists largely of individual symbols followed by their assigned meanings in English. (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to James Arlington Bennet, Arlington House, Long Island, NY, 13 Nov. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; Second Part 5th Degree and Second Part 4th Degree, “Grammar & Alphabet of the Egyptian Language,” Kirtland Egyptian Papers, ca. 1835–1836, CHL; JS History, vol. E-1, 1776.)