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.
In his 29 December 1843 address to forty newly sworn Nauvoo policemen, JS said he felt he was in more danger from “some little doe head [doughhead] of a fool” or a “Brutus” in the city than from outside threats. On 2 January 1844, rumors reached Law that he was the person to whom JS was referring and that JS had secretly charged some of the policemen “to put him (Law) out of the way.” At this 3 January meeting, it was determined that Law had received his information from Norton, who had drawn inferences from remarks made by Daniel Carn, one of the policemen present at the 29 December meeting. It was also determined that Norton, rather than JS, had identified Law as the “doe head” and the “Brutus” and that none of the policemen had received secret instructions from JS. Law’s opposition to plural marriage was also discussed at the meeting and was presented as part of the reason that Carn intimated, and Norton concluded, that Law was the traitor. The inquiry reportedly ended with good feelings. JS averred his friendship with Law, and Law told the council that “there was no man in the city more zealous to support Mormonism than himself” and that he believed he and JS had nothing to fear from each other. Similar rumors identifying both Law and William Marks as the “doe head” surfaced the following day, however, prompting another city council meeting on 5 January. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 29 Dec. 1843, 30–32; 3 Jan. 1844, 32–36; JS, Journal, 4 and 5 Jan. 1844; Law, Record of Doings, 2 and 3 Jan. 1844, in Cook, William Law, 38–41.)
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.