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.
JS may have been proposing that he and his associates complete—perhaps for publication—the “Grammar & Alphabet of the Egyptian Language” and similar documents they had prepared earlier in Kirtland, Ohio. Alternatively, he may have been suggesting that he and his associates create a new, separate grammar of Egyptian based on their current view of the language. (“Grammar & Alphabet of the Egyptian Language,” Kirtland Egyptian Papers, ca. 1835–1836, CHL; Gee, “Eyewitness, Hearsay, and Physical Evidence,” 202; Bushman, Rough Stone Rolling, 291–292.)
Gee, John. “Eyewitness, Hearsay, and Physical Evidence of the Joseph Smith Papyri.” In The Disciple as Witness: Essays on Latter-day Saint History and Doctrine in Honor of Richard Lloyd Anderson, edited by Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, and Andrew H. Hedges, 175–217. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2000.
Bushman, Richard Lyman. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling. With the assistance of Jed Woodworth. New York: Knopf, 2005.
Lois Lathrop Cutler.
TEXT: Transliteration from Taylor shorthand: “w-f/v [vowel]-nn-t-d”.
A 19 January 1841 revelation commanded that a “solemn proclamation of my gospel” be made “to all the Kings of the world.” JS’s clerk Robert B. Thompson was designated to help write the proclamation. Thompson died in August of the same year, and in spite of recurring discussions about crafting the document, it was not until after JS’s death that Parley P. Pratt finally wrote the commanded proclamation. (Book of the Law of the Lord, 3–15; Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841, in Doctrine and Covenants [103]:1, 1844 ed. [D&C 124:2–3]; [Pratt], Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints; Brigham Young, Nauvoo, IL, to Parley P. Pratt, 26 May 1845, photocopy, CHL.)
[Pratt, Parley P.] Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-Day Saints. New York: Samuel Brannan and Parley P. Pratt, 1845.
Young, Brigham. Letter, Nauvoo, IL, to Parley P. Pratt, 26 May 1845. Photocopy. CHL. MS 4766.
The letter to Bennet dated 13 November was written in response to one from Bennet dated 24 October 1843. (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to James Arlington Bennet, Arlington House, Long Island, NY, 13 Nov. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; James Arlington Bennet, Arlington House, Long Island, NY, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 24 Oct. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; see also JS, Journal, 9 Nov. 1843.)
On 2 November 1843, JS accepted an offer from John Frierson to help the Saints petition Congress for redress for losses they had suffered in Missouri. (JS, Nauvoo, IL, to Joseph L. Heywood, 2 Nov. 1843, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.)