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 rode with William Clayton and “br Kimball”—probably Heber C. Kimball, but possibly Hiram Kimball—to the steamboat landing. (Clayton, Journal, 17 Apr. 1844.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Merinus G. Eaton, Affidavit; Abiathar Williams, Affidavit, Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [2].
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
On 14 March 1844, Francis Blair, editor of the Washington DC Democratic newspaper the Daily Globe, published a lengthy, mocking commentary on JS’s Views on the Powers and Policy of the Government of the United States. In his commentary, Blair said that JS’s proposal for a national bank showed he was “thoroughly imbued with the whig financial doctrines.” Blair also criticized JS’s proposal to release convicts from penitentiaries. In his response, JS defended his proposals, writing that Blair’s attempt to identify him with Whigs was “extraneous” and “irrelevent” and that convicts should be released because the majority were wrongfully incarcerated “by corrupted Judges, suborned Witnesses, or ungodly men.” (“A New Advocate for a National Bank,” Daily Globe [Washington DC], 14 Mar. 1844, 251; “From the Sangamo Journal. The Globe and Joe Smith” and “The Globe,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 17 Apr. 1844, [1], [2]; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to the Globe, Washington DC, 15 Apr. 1844, Stephen A. Douglas Papers, Special Collection, University of Chicago; see also “The Globe” and “A New Advocate for a National Bank,” Times and Seasons, 15 Apr. 1844, 5:508–511.)
Daily Globe. Washington DC. 1831–1845.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.