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.
William Clayton recorded that this meeting of the Council of Fifty began at eleven o’clock in the morning and that during the meeting Orson Hyde, Wilford Woodruff, and James Emmett were admitted to the council. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 13 Mar. 1844.)
The letter indicated that Fielding, who had recently returned from a mission to England, was authorized “to receive monies for the Temple in Nauvoo, the poor, or for the Church” and “to transact such business as may be deemed necessary for the benifit of said Church . . . throughout the Island of Great Britain.” Fielding arrived in Liverpool on 26 May 1844. (Letter of attorney, JS et al. to Amos Fielding, 13 Mar. 1844, copy, JS Collection, CHL; JS, Journal, 8 Jan. 1844; Editorial, LDS Millennial Star, June 1844, 5:14–15; Stratton, Diary, 27–28 Sept. 1845.)
Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star. Manchester, England, 1840–1842; Liverpool, 1842–1932; London, 1932–1970.
Stratton, Joseph A. Diary, May 1844–Oct. 1846. CHL. MS 9233.
JS appointed Willard Richards and William Clayton as, respectively, “Recorder and . . . clerk of the Kingdom.” According to the Council of Fifty minutes, the name of the council was discussed and decided upon the following day; that the name, “The Kingdom of God,” appears in this entry suggests that Richards may have inserted this line after the next day’s meeting. (Clayton, Journal, 13 Mar. 1844; Woodruff, Journal, 13 Mar. 1844; Council of Fifty, “Record,” 13 and 14 Mar. 1844.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.