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.
The meeting was adjourned from 29 November 1843. (JS, Journal, 29 Nov. 1843.)
Similar in tone and content to JS’s appeal to the “Green Mountain Boys,” Pratt’s appeal to the citizens of New York implored them to assist “by every lawful means in your power, in bringing Missouri to justice, in rescuing a member of the confederacy from the grasp of an organized banditti, and in obtaining redress and protection in behalf of the injured.” (Pratt, Appeal to the Inhabitants of the State of New York.)
Pratt, Parley P. An Appeal to the Inhabitants of the State of New York, Letter to Queen Victoria: (Reprinted from the Tenth European Edition,): The Fountain of Knowledge, Immortality of the Body, and Intelligence and Affection. Nauvoo, IL: John Taylor, 1844.
The memorial was written by John Frierson. (JS, Journal, 28 Nov. 1843; JS et al., Memorial to U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, 28 Nov. 1843, Record Group 46, Records of the U.S. Senate, National Archives, Washington DC.)
JS related “circumstances which transpired in Missouri, not mentioned in the Memorial,” including thirty-eight “vexatious law suits” and a payment of $150,000 to Missouri for land. JS also discussed borrowing five hundred dollars from Illinois judge Richard Young to pay the expenses of the trip JS and others had made to Washington DC in winter 1839–1840 to seek redress for losses incurred by the Saints in Missouri. The editors of the Nauvoo Neighbor identified JS’s speech as “one of the most powerful interesting addresses that we ever heard.” (Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, 4 Dec. 1843; JS History, vol. E-1, 1792–1793; JS History, vol. C-1, 975–987; News Item, Nauvoo Neighbor, 6 Dec. 1843, [2].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.