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.
The council adjourned to its “next Regular Session,” on 8 June 1844. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 11 May and 8 June 1844, 11.)
Lyne, a well-known tragedian, had joined the church in April 1844 and helped produce at least one play in Nauvoo to raise money to help JS discharge a debt. JS attended the benefit play on 26 April. He also attended other plays Lyne produced in Nauvoo. (Carmack, “The Seven Ages of Thomas Lyne,” 56–57; “For the Warsaw Signal,” Warsaw [IL] Signal, 15 May 1844, [3]; JS, Journal, 8 and 9 May 1844; Crawley, Descriptive Bibliography, 1:252; see also Historian’s Office, Journal, 30 Apr. 1844, 1:11.)
Carmack, Noel A. “The Seven Ages of Thomas Lyne: A Tragedian among the Mormons.” John Whitmer Historical Association Journal 14 (1994): 53–72.
Warsaw Signal. Warsaw, IL. 1841–1853.
Crawley, Peter. A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church. 3 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1997–2012.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Five months later, in October 1844, Wilford Woodruff reported hearing JS say before his death that Rigdon had been admitted to these prayer meetings “without his [JS’s] wish or invitation, as he had no confidence in him.” In addition, William W. Phelps reported that Rigdon received “only a small part” of the temple ordinances in the meetings he attended. At the time Woodruff and Phelps made their reports, however, Rigdon was claiming to be JS’s proper successor—a claim they disputed and that may have influenced their accounts. (“To the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Greeting,” Times and Seasons, 1 Nov. 1844, 5:298; “Special Meeting,” Times and Seasons, 2 Sept. 1844, 5:638.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
This passage probably refers to the meeting reported eleven days later in the Quincy Whig, in which Blakeslee and either Chauncey L. or Francis M. Higbee, “representing the dissenters” in Nauvoo, addressed a “large number” of citizens in Quincy. Higbee and Blakeslee “made out that Joe Smith was pretty much of a rough customer” and “painted Smith, as any thing but the Saint he claims to be.” Greene defended JS two days later when he told “a crowded house” that “such doctrines as were ascribed to Smith by his enemies, had never been taught to him” and “strongly insinuated, that the characters of the individuals, who had assailed Smith on the second evening previous, were none of the best.” (“The Mormons,” Quincy [IL] Whig, 22 May 1844, [2].)
Quincy Whig. Quincy, IL. 1838–1856.