Footnotes
In February 1873, Lydia Goldthwaite Knight McClellan authored a preface to Knight’s history and explained that the creation of his history was his “dying request.” She stated to her readers that she had “done the best I could” in compiling the work although “considerable” portions of Knight’s journal were “kept on detached pieces of paper, and no doubt many interesting & valuable portions are lost.” (“Lydia Knight’s Statement,” 1, in Knight, History.)
Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.
Compare “History of Joseph Smith,” published serially in the Times and Seasons beginning 15 March 1842.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
At least three pages separated from what is apparently the earliest of these three manuscripts are housed in Lydia Goldthwaite Knight, Genealogical Records and Correspondence, 1833–1883, BYU.
Knight, Lydia Goldthwaite. Genealogical Records and Correspondence, 1833–1883. BYU.
“Newel Knight’s Journal,” 46–104, in Scraps of Biography. Tenth Book of the Faith-Promoting Series (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883).
“Newel Knight’s Journal.” In Scraps of Biography, Faith-Promoting Series 10, pp. 52–128. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 9 Apr. 1872.
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Footnotes
JS History, vol. A-1, 44; see also Historical Introduction to Revelation, July 1830–A [D&C 24].
JS History, vol. A-1, 51; see also Historical Introduction to Revelation, ca. Aug. 1830 [D&C 27].
Knight, History, 127–128.
Knight, Newel. History. Private possession. Copy in CHL. MS 19156.
Knight, Autobiography and Journal, 21.
Knight, Newel. Autobiography and Journal, ca. 1846. CHL. MS 767.