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 names of over 270 missionaries—most accompanied by their respective geographical assignment—are listed in the general church minutes kept by Thomas Bullock. The number grew over time; the 15 April 1844 issue of the Times and Seasons listed 339 names and assignments of missionaries, and ultimately some 380–390 missionaries were sent out. According to Young, the missionaries were to preach the gospel, schedule conferences, present General Smith’s Views of the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States to the people, and “seek diligently to get up electors who will go for him [JS] for the presidency.” (General Church Minutes, Bullock copy, 9 Apr. 1844, 34–39; “Special Conference,” Times and Seasons, 15 Apr. 1844, 5:504–506; see also Robertson, “Campaign and the Kingdom,” 177–180.)
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Phelps counseled the elders to respect themselves in order to get respect, to “give honor to whom honor is due,” to conduct themselves in “meekness & virtue,” and to confine themselves to their own duties. He also recommended they read about voting in the United States Constitution and identified the competition among nations in Daniel 2 as “the reason why God shod [should] set up a K[ingdom] in order to break in pieces” earthly kingdoms. (General Church Minutes, Bullock copy, 9 Apr. 1844, 40.)