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.
United States president John Tyler delivered his third annual message to Congress in early December 1843. Printed in the 27 December 1843 issue of the Nauvoo Neighbor, Tyler’s message discussed, among other things, the dispute with England over Oregon Country, the United States’ relations with Mexico, the national debt, and the country’s growing population. It is unknown if Phelps wrote on the “situati[o]n of the nation” at this time. Three days later, however, after JS was nominated as a candidate for United States president, JS asked Phelps to write a statement on JS’s “v[i]ews on the powers & policy” of the national government. This statement, eventually titled General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States, addressed many of the issues Tyler had discussed in his December 1843 message to Congress. (“Message of the President of the United States,” Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 28th Cong., 1st Sess., pp. 1–4 [1843]; “Presdent’s Message,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 27 Dec. 1843, [1]–[2]; JS, Journal, 29 Jan. and 5 Feb. 1844.)
The Congressional Globe, Containing Sketches of the Debates and Proceedings of the Third Session of the Twenty-Seventh Congress. Vol. 12. Washington DC: Blair and Rives, 1843.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
See Woodruff, Journal, 26 Jan. 1844.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.