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.
Phelps’s letter, titled “Pacific Innuendo,” was published in the 15 February 1844 issue of the Times and Seasons and the 21 February 1844 issue of the Nauvoo Neighbor. The letter provided favorable commentary on an open letter written by Ford on 29 January 1844 and published in the 14 February issue of the Warsaw Signal. Ford wrote his letter after receiving a copy of the proceedings of an anti-Mormon meeting held in Hancock County in which he—as he summarized it—was called upon to amend the Nauvoo charter, disarm the Saints, call out the militia “to arrest a supposed fugitive” (probably JS), and repeal some of the ordinances passed by the Nauvoo City Council. Ford explained that he had no authority to fulfill such requests and urged the citizens of Hancock County to resolve their differences peacefully. If violence between the anti-Mormons and the Mormons should break out, Ford warned, he would use his executive authority “against those who shall be the first transgressors,” since he was “bound by the laws and the constitution” to treat both groups “as citizens of the state, possessed of equal rights and privileges.” (“Pacific Innuendo,” Times and Seasons, 15 Feb. 1844, 5:442–443; “Pacific Innuendo,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 21 Feb. 1844, [2]; JS, Journal, 21 Feb. 1844; Thomas Ford, Springfield, IL, to “the Citizens of Hancock County, Mormons and all,” 29 Jan. 1844, Warsaw [IL] Signal, 14 Feb. 1844, [2].)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Warsaw Signal. Warsaw, IL. 1841–1853.