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.
The Saints on the Maid of Iowa were the first of about eight hundred British converts who left Liverpool between 17 September and 29 October 1842 in four different ships. They were forced to pass the winter south of Nauvoo because of ice on the upper Mississippi. (Pratt, Autobiography, chap. 41; Woods, Gathering to Nauvoo, 153.)
Pratt, Parley P. The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry and Travels, with Extracts, in Prose and Verse, from His Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Parley P. Pratt Jr. New York: Russell Brothers, 1874.
Woods, Fred E. Gathering to Nauvoo. American Fork, UT: Covenant Communications, 2002.
Mary Ann Frost Pratt, wife of Parley P. Pratt, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, had been in England since October 1840. There, Parley Pratt, who had arrived there in April 1840, edited the Millennial Star and helped supervise church emigration and publications. Returning to America with British converts, he and his family landed in New Orleans in early January 1843. He left his family at Chester, Illinois, and continued alone on horseback to Nauvoo. Sometime later he returned for his family and accompanied them and British converts to Nauvoo, where they arrived on 12 April 1843. The baby daughter was Susan Pratt, born 5 April 1843 en route to Nauvoo. (Pratt, Autobiography, 332–333, 335–336, 343; “Autobiographical Sketch of Mary Ann Stearns Winter,” Relief Society Magazine, [Oct. 1916]: 574–577.)
Pratt, Parley P. The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt, One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Embracing His Life, Ministry and Travels, with Extracts, in Prose and Verse, from His Miscellaneous Writings. Edited by Parley P. Pratt Jr. New York: Russell Brothers, 1874.
Relief Society Magazine. Salt Lake City. 1914–1970.