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Errata for Documents, Volume 8

This sheet identifies errors found in Documents, Volume 8: February–November 1841. Minor errors, such as in the format of source citations, are not reported. The errors reported here occur in all printings of the volume and have been corrected in the transcripts, annotation, and reference material presented on this site. This sheet will be updated as additional errors are found. Please report additional errors by emailing josephsmithpapers@churchofjesuschrist.org.
Page xxxiii, note 84, line 4. Change “sealed to JS” to “sealed to Smith”.
Page 15, line 7. Change “Howarden [Harwardin, Wales]” to “Howarden [Hawarden, Wales]”.
Page 20, lines 4–5. Remove paragraph break after “[p. 1]”.
Page 21, line 6. Change “a Mayor General” to “a Major General”.
Page 21, line 14. Change “The Staff of the Mayor General” to “The Staff of the Major General”.
Page 21, lines 16–17. Remove paragraph break after “[p. 2]”.
Page 21, line 21. Change “the Staff of the Mayor General” to “the Staff of the Major General”.
Page 22, line 30. Change “passed 3rd. Feby 1841.” to “<​passed 3rd. Feby 1841.​>”.
Page 23, lines 7–8. Remove paragraph break after “[p. 4]”.
Page 24, line 16. Change “1841; featured version” to “1841. Featured version”.
Page 24, line 17. Change “handwriting of John C. Bennett” to “handwriting of John C. Bennett; signatures of JS and John C. Bennett”.
Page 24, line 21. Change “The leaf was cut from a ldeger book and folded for filing.” to “The top, right, and bottom edges of the leaf have the square cut of manufactured paper, whereas the left edge is uneven, suggesting it was cut from a blank book; the leaf was folded for filing.”
Page 25, lines 1–2. Change “a ledger book he had repurposed for keeping legion records. Loose leaves from this record book, including the following minutes” to “of which only three loose leaves are extant. These loose leaves, including the following minutes”.
Page 25, line 22. Change “copied his notes into the ledger book titled” to “copied his notes into a larger document titled”.
Page 26, line 25. Change “James Robi[n]son” to “James Robison”.
Page 33, note 148. Change “JS Collection, CHL” to “JS Collection (Supplement), CHL”.
Page 36, line 10. Change “Saml. Marshall” to “Saml. Marshall”.
Page 44, lines 13–14. Change “in the handwriting of Thompson” to “in the handwriting of John C. Bennett”.
Page 44, note 211. Remove this footnote.
Page 48, line 10. Add a period after “p. 396 herein”.
Page 54, line 2. Change “handed to Colr. Greene” to “handed to Colr. [John P.] Greene”.
Page 54, lines 3–4. Remove paragraph break after “[p. 13]”.
Page 66, line 11. After the second paragraph, add another paragraph with the following text: “Next was Bron Benet [John C. Bennett] on Phisickal Education for the Health & preservation of the Lungs— [p. [15]]”.
Page 68, line 5. Move indicator for footnote 306 before “Joseph Smith” instead of after.
Page 72, note 327, line 5. Change “Notes Receivable from Chester Store, 22 May 1837” to “Notes Receivable from Rigdon, Smith & Co., 22 May 1837”.
Page 77, note 353, lines 8–9. Change “Historian’s Office, JS History, Draft Notes, addenda, 27 Oct. 1841” to “JS History, vol. C-1 Addenda Book, 1”.
Page 84, note 394, lines 2–3. Change “Jabez Durphy” to “Jabez Durfee”.
Page 126, line 4. Change “handwriting of John Snider” to “handwriting of William Law”.
Page 130, line 2. Before “Wm. Law”, add the following footnote: “Signatures of William Law, George Miller, John Snider, and Peter Haws.”
Page 130, note 175. Change “document is encircled in a curlicued circle” to “document is enclosed in a hand-drawn representation of a seal”.
Page 132, note 190. Change “‘Lewis Robison’ is likely Lewis Robinson, no relation to James Robison. Robinson, not then a member of the church” to “Lewis Robison, not then a member of the church”.
Page 146, line 20. Change “mark of Elender Wiggins” to “mark of Elender Moore Wiggins”.
Page 147, line 14. Change “El<​en​>der Wiggins” to “El<​en​>der [Moore] Wiggins”.
Page 152, lines 17–18. Change “Featured version copied in ‘Remarks by Joseph May 16th. 1841’; unidentified handwriting; two pages; JS Collection, CHL” to “Featured version copied as ‘Remarks by Joseph May 16th. 1841’ in a collection of discourses, pp. [1]–[2]; unidentified handwriting; JS Collection, CHL”.
Page 152, lines 20–22. Change “JS’s discourse was inscribed on the recto and verso of the first leaf. Residue from adhesive wafers (four on the recto of the first leaf and two on the verso of the second leaf) remains, indicating that the bifolium was at one point fastened to other documents.” to “The bifolium was originally part of a larger document recording multiple discourses; the text at the top of the recto of the first leaf starts in the middle of a sentence and the text at the bottom of the verso of the second leaf ends in the middle of a sentence. Also, residue remains from adhesive wafers (four on the recto of the first leaf and two on the verso of the second leaf), indicating that the bifolium was at one point fastened to more pages. This discourse was inscribed on the recto and verso of the first leaf.”
Page 153, line 7. Change “but in act 3 12” to “but in act 3 19”.
Page 153, note 286. Remove “The citation of Acts 3:12 was apparently a mistake made by JS or the scribe.”
Page 164, line 16. Change “Estates” to “Estate”.
Page 164, line 17. Change “docket” to “notation”.
Page 164, line 20. Change “docket” to “notation”.
Page 164, line 21. Change “D Greenleaf of P.J.P” to “D Greenleaf P.J.P—”.
Page 164, note 327. Change “Red Brick Store Floor Plan, ca. Jan 1841” to “Floor Plan for Joseph Smith’s Store, between Feb. and Dec. 1841”.
Page 167, note 343. Remove quotation marks around “Orson Pratt, A[n] Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions, 1840”.
Page 185, line 4. Change “to JS, [Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL]” to “to JS, for Samuel Clark, [Nauvoo, Hancock Co., IL]”.
Page 188, line 25. Change “four pages” to “three pages”.
Page 217, line 16. After “[p. [1]]”, add “[pages [2]–[3] blank]”.
Page 217, line 22. Change “[p. [2]]” to “[p. [4]]”.
Page 234, note 237, lines 3–4. Change “private possession” to “Edward Hunter, Collection, CHL”.
Page 243, line 13. After “[p. 2]”, add “[pages [3]–[4] blank]”.
Page 265, note 383, lines 3–4. Change “‘Report of the First Presidency,’ Times and Seasons, 15 Apr. 1841, 2:384” to “Report of the First Presidency to the Church, ca. 7 Apr. 1841, p. 104 herein”.
Page 280, lines 7 and 12. Switch footnotes 473 and 475. 473 should read “text: Stamped in blue ink.” and 475 should read “text: Postal place and date stamped in blue ink.”
Page 282, line 5. Change “J[John] P. Green” to “J P. Green [John P. Greene]”.
Page 282, line 17. After “[p. [1]]”, add “[pages [2]–[3] blank]”.
Page 282, line 20. “<​10​>” should be right justified.
Page 282, line 24. Change “[p. [2]]” to “[p. [4]]”.
Page 302, line 10. Change “every gen[era]ten” to “every genten [generation]”.
Page 318, note 197, line 1. Change “Minutes, 3–5 Oct. 1840” to “Minutes and Discourse, 3–5 Oct. 1840”.
Page 330, lines 17–18. Remove docket from transcript: “Manchester Oct 24th 1842 [1841] | P. P. Pratt.”
Page 331, line 17. Change “Margaret Smith’s cousin John Gest” to “Margaret Smith’s cousin John Guest”.
Page 331, line 19. Change “when Gest refused to recognize” to “when Guest refused to recognize”.
Page 332, line 1. Change “or Mr Guest [John Gest]” to “or Mr [John] Guest”.
Page 332, line 6. Remove space after “1987.”: “1987.17”.
Page 332, note 269, line 2. Change “her cousin John Gest” to “her cousin John Guest”.
Page 332, note 274, line 2. Change “Receipt to Edward Hunter, 28 Oct. 1841” to “Receipt to Edward Hunter, 28 Oct. 1841–A”.
Page 332, note 275. Add the following to the end of the footnote: “; see also Ephraim Potter for JS, Receipt to Edward Hunter, 28 Oct. 1841–B, JS Collection [Supplement], CHL”.
Page 336, line 20. Move “(Signed)” up two lines to precede “Joseph Smith LS.”
Page 336, note 294. Change “‘LS.’ is surrounded with a curlicued circle” to “‘LS.’ is enclosed in a hand-drawn representation of a seal”.
Page 340, line 11. Change “Mr. [George P. Stiles] Styles” to “Mr. Styles [George P. Stiles]”.
Page 340, note 324, line 7. Change “Emmons, the city attorney, voted” to “Emmons, voted”.
Page 340, note 324, line 12. Change “23 and 30 Oct. 1841, 28–30” to “23 and 30 Oct. 1841, 26, 28–30”.
Page 351, line 11. Change “three inches of the last page are missing” to “three inches of the second leaf are missing”.
Page 363, lines 6–7. Remove paragraph break after “[p. 29]”.
Page 364, line 12. Added insertion brackets around “passed Novr 13th 1841.”
Page 365, line 18. Change “City Properly” to “City Property”.
Page 365, lines 19–20 Remove paragraph break after “[p. 31]”.
Page 367, note 447, line 7. Change “once flourished a might people” to “once flourished a mighty people”.
Page 368, line 14. Remove docket from transcript: “Nov. 16, 1841.”
Page 368, line 18. Change “Elder Divine” to “Elder [James] Divine”.
Page 370, note 466. Change “2 Nov 1841” to “2 Nov. 1841”.
Page 373, line 4. Change “[25 blank lines]” to “[25 lines blank]”.
Page 375, note 498. Change “The promissory notes mentioned are not extant” to “See Promissory Note to Halsted, Haines & Co., 1 September 1837–B and –C”.
Pages 389–509. A number of updates and changes have been made to the reference material. The updates correct factual errors, add additional information, and remove biographical information that, while possibly accurate, could not be documented in primary sources or the most reliable secondary sources. Because the reference material supports all published volumes and all documents published on the website, the Smith Papers staff will not keep a record of the specific changes made to each entry published in Documents, Volume 8. Readers should refer to the Reference section of the Joseph Smith Papers website to find the corrected and updated information.
Page 393, line 10. Change “The index consists of 4 leaves” to “The index consists of 8 leaves”.
Page 393, line 12. Change “runs vertically along the left side of each page” to “runs vertically along the right side of each page”.
Page 466, line 30. Change “appointed on 29 February 1841” to “appointed on 19 February 1841”.
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