The Joseph Smith Papers is pleased to announce its latest web publication. This release features an introduction and documents for Joseph Smith’s land transactions in the Nauvoo, Illinois, area from 1839 to 1844. It also includes more than one hundred additional documents for two legal cases about the estate of Joseph Smith, fifty additional versions of documents from 1830 to 1835, and new and updated calendar of documents entries related to the Illinois land transactions and the additional versions of documents.
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.
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.