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.
Around this time, JS was studying German and Hebrew with Alexander Neibaur and had recently “suggested the Idea of preparing a grammar of the Egyptian Language.” (JS, Journal, 15 Nov. 1843; 18 and 22 Mar. 1844; 23 May 1844; see also JS, Nauvoo, IL, to James Arlington Bennet, Arlington House, Long Island, NY, 13 Nov. 1843, JS Collection, CHL; and JS, General Joseph Smith’s Appeal to the Green Mountain Boys.)
Those supporting JS’s candidacy for the presidency decided to ask Copeland to be JS’s running mate on 8 March 1844 after believing that their first choice, James Arlington Bennet, was ineligible for the office. Woodruff and Copeland had become friends almost a decade earlier when Woodruff was serving a mission in Tennessee. In his letter, Woodruff recalled the “common Civility & Sociability” with which Copeland had treated the Mormon missionaries and the way Copeland had come forward as a “gentleman, friend & republican” when others had not. Woodruff then informed Copeland of JS’s candidacy for the presidency and asked if Copeland would be “a candidate for vice president at the next Ele[c]tion.” (JS, Journal, 8 Mar. and 6 May 1844; Wilford Woodruff, Nauvoo, IL, to Solomon Copeland, Pigeon Roost, TN, 19 Mar. 1844, JS Office Papers, CHL, underlining in original.)
William W. Phelps had written “The Voice of Innocence from Nauvoo” the previous month. The document was slightly edited, perhaps by Emma Smith, before it was published over her name in the Nauvoo Neighbor with the title “Virtue Will Triumph.” (JS, Journal, 28 Feb. 1844; “The Voice of Innocence from Nauvoo,” 29 Feb. 1844, JS Collection, CHL; “Virtue Will Triumph,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 20 Mar. 1844, [2].)
Smith, Joseph. Collection, 1827–1846. CHL. MS 155.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.