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.
Pratt and his family arrived in Nauvoo on 12 April 1843 after his mission to England. Initially without a home of their own, the family lived for a time in “one small room” that served as “kitchen parlour, dining room, bedroom, & publick office.” (Parley P. Pratt, Nauvoo, IL, to John Van Cott, Canaan Four Corners, NY, 7 May 1843, CHL; see also JS, Journal, 12 Apr. 1843.)
Pratt, Parley P. Letter, Nauvoo, IL, to John Van Cott, Canaan Four Corners, NY, 7 May 1843. CHL. MS 5238.
Probably refers to George A. Smith’s health problems, which included coughing or spitting up blood on occasion. On 14 July 1843, George A. Smith wrote to his wife, Bathsheba Bigler Smith, from Cincinnati that he had “Not Ben troubled With Bleeding” on this mission, but then noted in an 18 September letter that he “spit some Blood” when speaking in Boylston Hall to one thousand people. (George A. Smith, Cincinnati, OH, to Bathsheba Bigler Smith, Nauvoo, IL, 14 July 1843; George A. Smith, Boston, MA, to Bathsheba Bigler Smith, Nauvoo, IL, 18 Sept. 1843, George Albert Smith, Papers, CHL.)
Smith, George Albert. Papers, 1834–1877. CHL. MS 1322.
Woodruff had overseen the business aspects of the printing office when the Quorum of the Twelve first purchased the office from Ebenezer Robinson in early February 1842. Woodruff continued to work in the office after JS turned the editorship over to John Taylor in November 1842, at which time Woodruff was identified with Taylor as a printer and publisher of the paper. (JS, Journal, 4 Feb. 1842; Woodruff, Journal, 19 Feb. 1842; Masthead, Times and Seasons, 15 Nov. 1842, 4:16.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
TEXT: Possibly “die <dis>” or “dis”. George A. Smith, who was present at this meeting, is apparently responsible for expanding this to “disagree” in draft material for the “History of Joseph Smith” published in early Mormon newspapers. (See Historian’s Office, JS History, draft notes, 19 Apr. 1843; George A. Smith, Great Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Wilford Woodruff, 21 Apr. 1856, in Historian’s Office, Historical Record Book, 218–221; Jessee, “Writing of Joseph Smith’s History,” 441.)
Historian’s Office. Historical Record Book, 1843–1874. CHL. MS 3434.
Page was called to serve in Pittsburgh at the 7 April 1842 conference of the church. (“Conference Minutes,” Times and Seasons, 15 Apr. 1842, 3:761–763.)
On this mission, eight members of the Quorum of the Twelve—Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Parley P. Pratt, Orson Pratt, Orson Hyde, John E. Page, Wilford Woodruff, and George A. Smith—held a conference in Boston on 9–11 September 1843. Most had traveled there in groups and held smaller conferences between early July and early September in many locations, including New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh. (JS History, vol. E-1, 1716–1733; Woodruff, Journal, 7 July–10 Sept. 1843; George A. Smith to Bathsheba Bigler Smith, Nauvoo, IL, 14 and 21 July 1843; 2, 14, and 30 Aug. 1843; 10 and 18 Sept. 1843, George Albert Smith, Papers, CHL.)
Woodruff, Wilford. Journals, 1833–1898. Wilford Woodruff, Journals and Papers, 1828–1898. CHL. MS 1352.
Smith, George Albert. Papers, 1834–1877. CHL. MS 1322.