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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 several documents from Nauvoo, Illinois, city records, including a tax assessment book for 1841, an introduction to the treasurer records, and two Nauvoo Legion documents. It also adds introductions and documents for Robert B. Thompson’s agent papers and financial documents for Joseph Smith’s estate. The release includes sixty additional documents in the Documents series, most of which are other versions of already-existing documents. New and updated entries in the biographical directory and calendar of documents and two new charts are part of the release as well.
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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.