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.
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Whitmer was the official historian of the church from June 1831 until his excommunication in March 1838. In January 1844, Whitmer wrote Phelps that the church history he, Whitmer, had compiled could “be had at a fair price.” Richards, who was compiling JS’s history with Phelps at the time, answered the letter. He told Whitmer that church historians had “already compiled about 800 pages of church history . . . which covers all the ground of which you took notes, therefore any thing which you have in the shape of church history would be of little or no consequence to the church at large.” (See Historical Introduction to Whitmer, History; John Whitmer, Far West, MO, to William W. Phelps, Nauvoo, IL, 8 Jan. 1844, JS Office Papers, CHL; JS, Journal, 20 Jan. 1843; Willard Richards, Nauvoo, IL, to John Whitmer, Far West, MO, 23 Feb. 1844, copy, Willard Richards, Papers, CHL.)
Richards, Willard. Journals and Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490.
Hyrum Smith and Sidney Rigdon were also in attendance. (Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 23 Feb. 1844.)
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.
Plans were already in place for a large number of men from Nauvoo to campaign for JS in the East for the upcoming presidential election. (JS, Journal, 29 Jan. 1844.)
Fullmer and seven others had either volunteered or been recommended for the California–Oregon expedition two days earlier. In addition to Bent and Kelting, Samuel Rolfe, Daniel Avery, and James Emmett (whose name had been suggested earlier) volunteered to go on the expedition at this 23 February meeting, and George D. Watt and Daniel Spencer (whose names had also been suggested earlier) indicated their willingness to go. This brought the total number of men whose names had been put forward for the exploring party to twelve. Other men volunteered or were nominated for the expedition over the next several days. (JS, Journal, 20, 21, and 24 Feb. 1844; Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Minutes, 23 Feb. and 12 Mar. 1844; “Names to go west with Daniel Spencer west,” no date, JS Collection, CHL.)
Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. Minutes, 1840–1844. CHL.