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.
A reference to the Democratic Party. Prominent members of the party were behind many of the Saints’ difficulties in Missouri and Illinois. The 1838 Missouri “extermination order,” for example, was signed by Democratic governor Lilburn W. Boggs, and efforts to extradite JS to Missouri in 1840–1841 and 1842–1843 were spearheaded by Boggs and his Democratic successor, Thomas Reynolds. More recently, Reynolds had sent another requisition for JS’s extradition to the current governor of Illinois, Democrat Thomas Ford, who, like his Democratic predecessor Thomas Carlin, felt that constitutional law required him to issue a warrant for JS’s arrest. (General Introduction to Joseph Smith and His Papers; Volume Introduction to the 1830s Journals; Historical Introduction to JS, Journal, 1839; Volume Introduction to Nauvoo Journals, December 1841–April 1843; JS, Journal, 8 Sept. 1842; Introduction to Appendix 1; U.S. Constitution, art. 4, sec. 2; Warrant for JS, 17 June 1843, copy, JS Collection, CHL.)