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.
Four Potawatomi men, one woman, and an interpreter came to Nauvoo with Jonathan Dunham when he returned from visiting the Potawatomi Indians on 26 August 1843. They brought to JS a letter from members of the tribe asking him if he thought they should give up their lands to white settlers. “We Like very much you chall [shall] be our father,” they wrote. “We think Grate of you we think as longe we are in the Dark our father will Give us the Lite.” William Clayton wrote a response for JS at the latter’s request, advising the Indians to keep their lands. “I shall be happy to render you any assistance in my power in giving instructions and advice as well as to do any other business for you which lays in my power at any time,” the letter continued, “if it be not contrary to the laws of the United States, which laws I am always obedient and subject to.” (Dunham, Journal, 18 Aug. 1843; JS, Journal, 26 Aug. 1843; Clayton, Journal, 28 Aug. 1843; [Paicouchaiby and Other Potawatomi], [Iowa Territory], to JS, Nauvoo, IL, [ca. 14 Aug. 1843]; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to “Pottowattomie Indians,” 28 Aug. 1843, JS Collection, CHL.)
Dunham, Jonathan. Journals, 1837–1846. Jonathan Dunham, Papers, 1825–1846. CHL. MS 1387, fds. 1–4.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.