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.
Possibly Ann Partington, who immigrated to Nauvoo from England earlier in the year with her husband, Ralph, and their young children, Ellen, William, Catherine, Sarah, and Joseph Hyrum. (“Diary of Ellen Partington Kay,” in Allred, Hardy Heritage, 28, 32; Slaughter, “An Index of Early Latter-day Saints,” 49–50, 89–90.)
Allred, June Hardy, comp. A Hardy Heritage: The Ancestors and Descendants of Rufus Herbert Hardy and Annie Kay. Bountiful, UT: Family History Publishers, 1995.
Slaughter, Sheri Eardley. “‘Meet Me in St. Louie’: An Index of Early Latter-day Saints Associated with St. Louis, Missouri.” Nauvoo Journal 10 (Fall 1998): 49–108.
In July 1843, book publisher Clyde, Williams & Co. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, wrote to JS requesting “an accurate and impartial account of the Rise and Progress, Faith and Practice. . . . of the Church to which you belong” for inclusion in their contemplated book, “He Pas‘Ecclesia, or The Whole Church of the United States.” On 1 August 1843, JS and William W. Phelps responded that “a suitable article on the subject requested, will be matured and forwarded in season to meet your anticipations.” The completed article recounts JS’s first vision of Deity, the coming forth of the Book of Mormon, the organization of the church, difficulties in Missouri, and the settlement of Nauvoo. Much of the pre-Nauvoo information was taken from a letter written at the request of John Wentworth in 1842 and subsequently published in the Times and Seasons. The article was sent to Clyde, Williams & Co. on 15 September 1843 and published in the 1844 book as a chapter titled “Latter Day Saints.” (Clyde, Williams & Co., Harrisburg, PA, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, July 1843, JS Collection, CHL; JS per William W. Phelps, Nauvoo, IL, to Clyde, Williams & Co., Harrisburg, PA, 1 Aug. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; JS, “Church History,” Times and Seasons, 1 Mar. 1842, 4:706–710; JS, Journal, 15 Sept. 1843; JS, “Latter Day Saints,” in Rupp, He Pasa Ekklesia, 404–410.)
Rupp, Israel Daniel, ed. He Pasa Ekklesia [The Whole Church]: An Original History of the Religious Denominations at Present Existing in the United States, Contains Authentic Accounts of Their Rise, Progress, Statistics and Doctrines. Written Expressly for the Work by Eminent Theological Professors, Ministers, and Lay-Members, of the Respective Denominations. Projected, Compiled and Arranged by I. Daniel Rupp, of Lancaster, Pa. Philadelphia: J. Y. Humphreys; Harrisburg: Clyde and Williams, 1844.