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.
JS was probably accompanied by William Clayton, who noted in his journal that he was “gone all day” on a ride “out to the prairie.” (Clayton, Journal, 5 June 1844.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
JS received a copy of Rupp’s book on religious denominations in the United States, to which he had earlier contributed a chapter on the Latter-day Saints. In his letter, JS told Rupp that he had received the book and that he was “very thankful for so valueable a treasure.” Perhaps referring to the book’s contents, JS told Rupp that “every religions creed is not sanctioned with the so eternally sure word of prophesy, satisfying, all doubt— with ‘Thus saith the Lord, yet, by p[r]oving contrarreties, truth is made manifest,’ and a wise man can search out the ‘old paths,’ whiren righteous men held communion with Jehovah, and were exalted.” JS also offered to furnish Rupp with additional information about the church as it grew and expanded its work. (Rupp, He Pasa Ekklesia; JS, “Latter Day Saints,” in Rupp, He Pasa Ekklesia; JS, Journal, 7 and 15 Sept. 1843; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to I. Daniel Rupp, Lancaster, PA, 5 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL, underlining in original.)
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.