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.
Mary Fielding Smith. The prayer meeting presumably convened at ten o’clock in the morning, according to adjournment the previous day.
JS’s appeal to Vermont citizens for help in obtaining redress for losses the Saints had suffered in Missouri. (JS, Journal, 21 Nov. 1843.)
Wilford Woodruff noted that the discussion on the appeal to the Green Mountain Boys occupied the “fore part of the day,” while “the latter part of the day was taken up by instructions from President Smith & remarks from others.” (Woodruff, Journal, 3 Dec. 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Nathan Pratt, the five-and-a-half-year-old son of Parley P. and Mary Ann Frost Pratt, died of “fever of the brain” on 21 December 1843. (Pratt, Family Record, no date, CHL; “Biography of Nathan Pratt,” Times and Seasons, 15 Jan. 1844, 5:414–415.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Wilford Woodruff, who was sick, was one of those for whom the quorum prayed. (Woodruff, Journal, 3 Dec. 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.