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’s letter to Campbell has not been located, but it probably responded to a letter Campbell had written to JS on 19 December 1843 in behalf of Josiah Stowell, who resided in New York and was an old friend of JS and his family. Campbell, who was baptized in August 1835, told JS that although Stowell’s health was poor, he wanted to gather with the Saints at Nauvoo “to renew his covenant with the Lord.” Campbell asked JS to pray for their health and to “besech the Lord for us that he may open the way for us to come up to Zion the next season.” Campbell also requested JS to write to Stowell, as “it would be verry consoling to him,” and to direct the letter to her. (Martha L. Campbell, Elmyra, NY, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 19 Dec. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; Greene, List of Baptisms, 1835, Evan M. Greene Papers, CHL.)
Greene, Evan Melbourne. Papers, 1835–1878. CHL. MS 789.
On 11 January, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles asked for men to chop and haul wood for JS. Forty to fifty teams, comprising over two hundred men with axes, helped cut and haul the wood to JS’s home on 15 January. The following day, “a number of hands assembled” to cut and stack the wood. (JS, Journal, 11 Jan. 1844; “Wood Chopping,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Jan. 1844, [2]; see also Woodruff, Journal, 15 Jan. 1844.)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
In the Nauvoo City Council’s 5 January 1844 investigation of the rumors that William Law and William Marks were traitors to JS, Higbee testified that he received an impression “from some source” that Law, Marks, and others in the church “could not subscribe to all things in the church, and it might make trouble.” After Higbee left the meeting, JS referred to Higbee’s testimony and said that Higbee “had better stay at home & hold his tongue, lest rumor turn upon him” and that “the young men of the City had better withdraw from him & let him stand on his own merits, not consider him the standard.” According to Law, JS also said that Higbee was “conniving with Missouri,” that he disgraced his associates, and that JS “had denied him the privilege of his [JS’s] house (or words like that) and would not allow him to associate with his females.” Law further reported that JS said he had been called to give Higbee a blessing “when he stank from a cause he did not like to name (or such a saying).” Five days later, on 10 January, Higbee wrote a letter to JS about “the inconsiderate, the unwarented, and unheard of Attack” JS had made on his character before the city council and demanded an immediate investigation into the charge. Higbee added that he could not understand JS’s motive for making such an accusation but intimated that he thought it might be connected to his opposition to plural marriage. JS and Higbee reconciled on 16 January. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 5 Jan. 1844, 36–40; 16 Jan. 1844, 45; Law, Record of Doings, 5 Jan. 1844, in Cook, William Law, 45–46; JS, Journal, 5 and 16 Jan. 1844; Francis M. Higbee, Nauvoo, IL, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 10 Jan. 1844, JS Collection, CHL; Orson Pratt, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 15 Jan. 1844, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book, 90.)
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.
Nauvoo Municipal Court Docket Book / Nauvoo, IL, Municipal Court. “Docket of the Municipal Court of the City of Nauvoo,” ca. 1843–1845. In Historian's Office, Historical Record Book, 1843–1874, pp. 51–150 and pp. 1–19 (second numbering). CHL. MS 3434.
In his affidavit, Pratt swore that Higbee had been summoned to testify at an investigation conducted by the Nauvoo City Council on 5 January 1844 and then had left the council proceedings without permission. Pratt also testified that Higbee had used “slanderous and abusive epithets and language” toward JS while in Pratt’s house on 14 January 1844. Pratt further claimed that Higbee had “read an abusive letter” against JS, which Pratt promised to send to JS. Richards reported issuing the arrest warrant this same day. (Orson Pratt, Affidavit, Hancock Co., IL, 15 Jan. 1844, Nauvoo, IL, Records, CHL; Richards, Journal, 15 Jan. 1844.)
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.