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New Content on the Joseph Smith Papers Website
The Joseph Smith Papers is pleased to announce its latest web publication. This release features the entirety of Documents, Volume 13: August–December 1843, including all annotation and introductions, as well as related documents and additional versions of documents from the time period. It also adds introductions and documents for trustee-in-trust records, land transactions in Iowa Territory and Nauvoo, Illinois, and Henry G. Sherwood’s agent papers. The release also includes about fifty Nauvoo Legion documents, indexes to the Nauvoo Registry of Deeds books, and more than fifty additional versions of documents from 1834 to 1841. New and updated entries in the calendar of documents are also included.
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About the Joseph Smith Papers Project
Joseph Smith (1805–1844) was the founding prophet and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Joseph Smith Papers Project is an effort to transcribe, contextualize, and publish all his writings and teachings, including revelations, translations, letters, discourses, journals, histories, and legal and financial records.
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The Joseph Smith Papers will consist of twenty-seven volumes, divided into five series: Documents, Journals, Revelations and Translations, Histories, and Administrative Records; two additional series, the Legal Records series and the Financial Records series, will be published online.