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.
On 11 July 1843, Richards had property surveyed for a new home, and on 3 August, he recorded that he “wrote subscription for bulding a house.” (Richards, Journal, 11 July and 3 Aug. 1843.)
Richards, Willard. Journals, 1836–1853. Willard Richards, Papers, 1821–1854. CHL. MS 1490, boxes 1–2.
Cowles charged Adams with “Unchristian Conduct” generally and specifically with adultery, breach of covenant, lying, slandering, and “putting the stumbling Block of his Iniquity Before his face and Raising an Image of Jealousy and Causing people to worship it.” The high council heard the charges on 1 September 1843. (“A Cowles V. S. G. J Adams,” 1843, Nauvoo High Council Papers, CHL; Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1 Sept. 1843; JS, Journal, 1 Sept. 1843.)
Nauvoo High Council Papers, 1839–1844. CHL. LR 3102 23.
Nauvoo High Council Minutes, 1839–1845. CHL. LR 3102 22.