Footnotes
JS, Journal, 29 June 1842; “Clayton, William,” in Jenson, Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, 1:718; Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 18, 30–31. Clayton’s docket reads simply “April.”
Jenson, Andrew. Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia: A Compilation of Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 4 vols. Salt Lake City: Andrew Jenson History Co., 1901–1936.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Following Clayton’s docket identifying the month, “April,” the unidentified scribe added the year “1844” and then corrected it to “1843.”
Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 456, 458; Woodruff, Journal, 22 Jan. 1865. Beneath Clayton’s docket identifying the month and the unidentified scribe’s addition identifying the year, Bullock inserted “Minutes of a Meeting in Nauvoo.”
Jessee, Dean C. “The Writing of Joseph Smith’s History.” BYU Studies 11 (Summer 1971): 439–473.
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Historian’s Office, Journal, 7 June 1853; Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to George A. Smith, 30 Aug. 1856, in Historian’s Office, Letterpress Copybooks, vol. 1, p. 364. Between Clayton’s docket identifying the month and the unidentified scribe’s addition identifying the year, Grimshaw inserted “Conference.”
Historian’s Office. Journal, 1844–1997. CHL. CR 100 1.
Historian’s Office. Letterpress Copybooks, 1854–1879, 1885–1886. CHL. CR 100 38.
See the full bibliographic entry for Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 1839–1877, in the CHL catalog.
Footnotes
It was called a “special conference” rather than a “general conference” because in October 1841, JS announced that the church would “not hold another general conference” until the temple was completed. (JS, Journal, 6–9 Apr. 1843; Minutes and Discourse, 1–5 Oct. 1841.)
JS, Journal, 6 Apr. 1843; Leviticus 25:1–17; see also JS, Journal, 30 Mar. 1836. Wilford Woodruff noted that the 1843 conference represented “the commenc[e]ment of the fourteenth year of the church.” (Woodruff, Journal, 6 Apr. 1843.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
JS, Journal, 23 and 28 Oct. 1842; 6 and 8 Apr. 1843; George Alley, Nauvoo, IL, to Joseph Alley, Lynn, MA, 13 Apr. 1843, George Alley, Letters, microfilm, CHL; see also McBride, House for the Most High, 115–117. By April 1843, construction on the temple walls had progressed to between four and twelve feet from the floor. (JS, Journal, 6 Apr. 1843.)
Alley, George. Letters, 1842–1859. Microfilm. CHL.
McBride, Matthew. A House for the Most High: The Story of the Original Nauvoo Temple. Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2007.
Clayton, Journal, 6 Apr. 1843. Willard Richards made a more complete account of the conference proceedings in JS’s journal. (JS, Journal, 6–9 Apr. 1843.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
For more information on Willard Richards’s note-taking methods, see Historical Introduction to Discourse, 4 July 1843.
Burgess arrived in Nauvoo on 12 April 1843 with many other English immigrants. JS delivered a discourse welcoming the new arrivals the following day, which Burgess mentioned in his journal. (Burgess, Journal and Notebook, [64]–[65]; Discourse, 13 Apr. 1843.)
Burgess, James. Journal, 1841–1848. CHL. MS 1858.
See Minutes, 7 Apr. 1843; and Discourse, 8 Apr. 1843.
Until then, Holman and Dunn were living in Hyrum Smith’s residence. (JS, Journal, 6 Apr. 1843.)
When JS’s scribe James Sloan produced a revised draft of the minutes and accounts of discourses, he interpreted Clayton’s “pwe.” to mean “power.” (See Revised Minutes and Discourses Draft, 23 Apr.–ca. 3 May 1843, 4, in Historian’s Office, General Church Minutes, 6 Apr. 1843.)
The version of the discourse recorded by Willard Richards clarifies that JS stated, “If I were the biggest rogue in the world, he would steal my horse when I wanted to run away.”
JS issued a proclamation “to ferret out a band of thievish outlaws from our midst” on 25 March 1843 after hearing a report earlier that same day from Hyrum Smith concerning thieves. (JS, Journal, 25 Mar. 1843; JS, “Proclamation,” Wasp, 29 Mar. 1843, [3]; see also Revised Minutes and Discourses, 23 Apr.–ca. 8 May 1843.)