Peruse New Documents and Tools on Our Website

We recently added a substantial amount of new content to our website and invite you to explore it:

• Approximately 150 documents from January to March 1843, including letters, discourses, land deeds, and resolutions of the Nauvoo City Council. Highlights include
  • Nauvoo City Ordinances, 30 January 1843
  • Remarks, 9 February 1843, as Reported by William Clayton
  • Letter to James Arlington Bennet, 17 March 1843
  • Blessing to Sarah Ann Whitney, 23 March 1843
• The Nauvoo City Council Minute Book, 3 February 1841–8 February 1845 and the rough minutes for city council meetings in 1841.
• Legal papers from the Nauvoo Mayor’s Court and Nauvoo Municipal Court.
• Footnotes for volume D-1 of the Manuscript History of the Church, directing readers to the sources used to compile the history.
• A Topics page highlighting Joseph Smith’s perspective on Religious Freedom.
• An index linking passages in Joseph Fielding Smith’s compilation Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith to the earliest known primary sources, the majority of which are available on our website.