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.
DeWolf also preached to the Saints the previous year on 11 June 1843. (JS, Journal, 11 June 1843.)
According to Wilford Woodruff, JS “said that men may preach & practice evry thing except those things which God commands us to do & will be damned at last we may tithe rue annis & cummin & still not obey the commandments of God the object with me is to obey & teach others to obey God in just what he tells us to do It mattereth not whether the principle is popular or unpopular I will always maintain a true principl even if I stand alone in it.” (Woodruff, Journal, 21 Feb. 1844.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George A. Smith, and Willard Richards, along with “4 others,” were present at the meeting. (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 21 Feb. 1844.)
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
Phineas Young, David D. Yearsley, David Fullmer, Jonathan Dunham, James Emmett, George D. Watt, Daniel Spencer, and Alphonzo Young were selected to look for a place in California or Oregon Country where church members could settle. (JS, Journal, 20 Feb. 1844; Woodruff, Journal, 21 Feb. 1844; Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 21 Feb. 1844.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
On 16 February 1844, JS instructed William W. Phelps to write a “communicati[o]n” approving Illinois governor Thomas Ford’s 29 January 1844 letter that was published in the Warsaw Signal and which urged peaceful relations between anti-Mormons and Mormons. Phelps’s “Pacific Innuendo,” as it was titled, praised Ford’s “candid, pacific, and highly creditable advice” to Hancock County citizens; argued that “there has never been any cause for alarm as to the Latter Day Saints” in the county; and urged Mormons and non-Mormons alike to be governed by the ideals of “reason, liberty, law, light, and philanthropy.” (JS, Journal, 16 Feb. 1844; “Pacific Innuendo,” Times and Seasons, 15 Feb. 1844, 5:442–443; “Pacific Innuendo,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 21 Feb. 1844, [2], italics in original.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
In his letter, which was published in the same issue of the Nauvoo Neighbor as William W. Phelps’s “Pacific Innuendo,” JS told Taylor, editor of the Neighbor, that it would be “more love-like, God-like, and man-like” to not respond to anti-Mormon editorials in the Warsaw Signal. “We will honor the advice of Governor Ford,” JS wrote, “cultivate peace and friendship with all; mind our own business and come off with flying colors, respected, because, in respecting others, we respect ourselves.” Taylor had in the past written acerbic editorials about the Warsaw paper, which had recently been repurchased by former owner and editor Thomas Sharp, who reverted the paper’s name from the Warsaw Message to the Warsaw Signal. (“To the Editor of the Neighbor,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 21 Feb. 1844, [2]; for examples of editorials about the Warsaw Message in the Nauvoo Neighbor, see “Carthage Warsaw and Green Plains,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 24 Jan. 1844, [2]; and News Item, Nauvoo Neighbor, 7 Feb. 1844, [2].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.