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.
According to JS, Foster had a pistol attached to his waistband when he came to visit, which may partly account for JS’s refusal to have a private interview with him. William Clayton reported that JS told Foster that he was “willing” to have the interview but that he “would have some witnesses present.” Orrin Porter Rockwell, who overheard the conversation between JS and Foster, reported that JS proposed Hyrum Smith, William Marks, Lucien Woodworth, Peter Haws, as well as others, serve as witnesses. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 10 June 1844, 21–22; Clayton, Journal, 7 June 1844.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Contrary to Foster’s purported claims, Cyrus Hills later recalled JS saying that he and Foster, with their witnesses, “would have a cool and calm invistegatin of the subject,— and by his [Foster’s] making a proper satisfacti[o]n things should be honorably adjusted.” In a letter to JS and evidently in his reports to others, Foster suggested that JS, rather than Foster, had proposed to settle their difficulties and allow Foster back into the church—a charge JS and others corrected the following day. (Nauvoo City Council Rough Minute Book, 10 June 1844, 21–22; Robert D. Foster, [Nauvoo, IL], to JS, [Nauvoo, IL], 7 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Journal, 8 June 1844.)
The Nauvoo Expositor—edited by Emmons and published by William Law, Wilson Law, Charles Ivins, Francis M. Higbee, Chauncey L. Higbee, Robert D. Foster, and Charles Foster—was a four-page, six-column weekly dedicated to giving “a full, candid and succinct statement of facts, as they exist in the city of Nauvoo, fearless of whose particular case they may apply.” Included in its first and only issue was a lengthy article explaining that while the publishers believed “that the religion of the Latter Day Saints, as originally taught by Joseph Smith” was true, they opposed many of JS’s teachings and practices in Nauvoo—most notably the combination of church and state, “the doctrine of many Gods,” and JS’s marrying women as spiritual wives. Affidavits by William Law, Jane Silverthorn Law, and Austin Cowles attesting to a JS revelation justifying “a plurality of wives” were also published, as were fifteen resolutions advocating conservative Christian and republican values over doctrines and practices currently found in Nauvoo. Other articles advocated the repeal of the Nauvoo charter, mocked JS’s candidacy for the presidency, and complained about Nauvoo city ordinances. According to William Law, one thousand copies of the Nauvoo Expositor were printed, and five hundred were “mailed forthwith.” (Nauvoo Expositor, 7 June 1844, italics in original; Law, Record of Doings, 7 June 1844, in Cook, William Law, 55.)
Cook, Lyndon W. William Law: Biographical Essay, Nauvoo Diary, Correspondence, Interview. Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994.