Footnotes
The page numbers on pages 19–71, 86–90, and 122–125 are in the handwriting of Willard Richards; on pages 72–85, 91–121, 126–167, and 171–477, in the handwriting of William Clayton; and on pages 168–170, in the handwriting of Erastus Derby. There are two pages numbered 453. Pages 476–477 constitute the last leaf of lined paper. The headers generally consist of a year or a month and year. The headers inscribed on pages 26–27, 29–71, 88–95, 119, and 121–126 are in the handwriting of Richards; the headers inscribed on pages 28, 72–87, 96–118, 120, 127–167, and 172–215 are in the handwriting of Clayton; pages 168–171, which were inscribed by Derby, have no headers. A few other pages are missing headers.
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.
Most of these now-erased graphite inscriptions are recoverable with bright white light and magnification. Pages 209–215, which were not erased, represent the state of the journal entries generally when they were used for drafting the “History of Joseph Smith.”
Tithing and Donation Record, 1844–1846, CHL; Trustee-in-trust, Index and Accounts, 1841–1847, CHL.
Trustee-in-Trust. Index and Accounts, 1841–1847. CHL.
Historian’s Office, “Inventory. Historian’s Office. 4th April 1855,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Inventory. Historians Office. G. S. L. City April 1.1857,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Historian’s Office Inventory G. S. L. City March 19. 1858,” [1]; Historian’s Office, “Historian’s Office Catalogue Book March 1858,” [11], Historian’s Office, Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904, CHL.
Historian’s Office. Catalogs and Inventories, 1846–1904. CHL. CR 100 130.
Emmeline B. Wells, “Salt Lake Stake Relief Society Conference,” Woman’s Exponent, 1 July 1880, 9:22.
Woman’s Exponent. Salt Lake City. 1872–1914.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970, First Presidency, General Administration Files, CHL.
“Inventory of President Joseph Fielding Smith’s Safe,” 23 May 1970. First Presidency, General Administration Files, 1921–1972. CHL.
Letter of transfer, Salt Lake City, UT, 8 Jan. 2010, CHL.
Letter of Transfer, Salt Lake City, UT, 8 Jan. 2010. CHL.
Date | Manuscript Page | Page in JSP, J2 |
December 1841 | 26, 31, 33, 36, 39, 43–44 | 10–21 |
Dec. 1841 | 36 | 16 |
11–13 Dec. 1841 | 33 | 14–15 |
13 Dec. 1841 | 26, 33 | 10–11, 15–16 |
14 Dec. 1841 | 26 | 11 |
15–16 Dec. 1841 | 31 | 13–14 |
17 Dec. 1841 | 26 | 11 |
22 Dec. 1841 | 36 | 16–17 |
24–28 Dec. 1841 | 39 | 17–19 |
29–31 Dec. 1841 | 43–44 | 19–21 |
January 1842 | 31, 43–44, 48, 56–60, 66–67 | 14, 21–32, 36–38 |
1 Jan. 1842 | 44 | 21 |
4 Jan. 1842 | 48 | 23–24 |
5 Jan. 1842 | 31, 44 | 14, 21 |
6 Jan. 1842 | 57 | 25–26 |
12–16 Jan. 1842 | 48 | 24 |
15 Jan. 1842 | 58 | 26–27 |
16 Jan. 1842 | 48, 58 | 24, 27 |
17 Jan. 1842 | 43, 56, 58 | 20–21, 24–25, 27 |
18–22 Jan. 1842 | 58 | 27–30 |
23 Jan. 1842 | 59, 66 | 30, 36–37 |
24 Jan. 1842 | 59 | 30 |
25 Jan. 1842 | 59, 66 | 30, 37 |
26–27 Jan. 1842 | 59 | 30–31 |
28 Jan. 1842 | 59, 67 | 31, 38 |
29–31 Jan. 1842 | 60 | 31–32 |
February–July 1842 | 60–61, 88–95, 122–128 | 32–36, 38–80 |
August 1842 | 128–135, 164–167, 179–184 | 80–99, 115–124 |
3–15 Aug. 1842 | 128–135 | 80–92 |
16 Aug. 1842 | 135, 164–165 | 93–96 |
17–21 Aug. 1842 | 165–167 | 96–99 |
Copied Correspondence | 168–178 | 100–114 |
23–31 Aug. 1842 | 179–184 | 115–124 |
September–December 1842 | 184–215 | 124–183 |
Footnotes
One of Richards’s entries records that he was ill “& did not take notes.” Other entries, such as those dictated by JS to William Clayton while in hiding, are clearly copies of previously inscribed notes. (JS, Journal, 17 June 1842; 16 and 23 Aug. 1842.)
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 16; Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:626.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
Clayton, History of the Nauvoo Temple, 18; Clayton, Journal, 10 Feb. 1843.
Clayton, William. History of the Nauvoo Temple, ca. 1845. CHL. MS 3365.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
JS, Kirtland, OH, to William W. Phelps, [Independence, MO], 27 Nov. 1832, in JS Letterbook 1, pp. 1–2 [D&C 85:1–2, 5]; 2 Chronicles 17:9; 34:14; Nehemiah 9:3.
See also the entry for 29 June 1842, in which Richards transferred “this Journal” to his assistant William Clayton.
Pages 207–209, for example, contain such inscriptions. Willard Richards’s entry for 10 March 1842 also indicates contemporaneous inscription.
Brigham Young et al., “Baptism for the Dead,” Times and Seasons, 15 Dec. 1841, 3:626.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
JS, Journal, 8 Aug. 1842; see also Appendix 1.
At a conference in late August, several hundred men were called to serve missions in various parts of the United States in an effort to spread the gospel and counter John C. Bennett’s accusations against JS and the church. Contemporary news accounts reported Hyrum Smith and William Law working in Salem, Massachusetts, and visiting Hyrum’s uncle Solomon Mack in Gilsum, New Hampshire. They returned in November and reported that Bennett’s publications had, ironically, generated publicity favorable to the church. (JS, Journal, 26 and 29 Aug. 1842; 4 Nov. 1842; Snow, Journal, 1841–1847, 34; Hyrum Smith, Nauvoo, IL, to Harriett M. Whittemore, Pontiac, MI, 9 Apr. 1843, Whittemore Family, Papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Anderson, Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage, 235n87.)
Snow, Erastus. Journals, 1835–1851; 1856–1857. CHL. MS 1329, box 1, fds. 1–3.
Whittemore Family, Papers, 1817–1978. Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Anderson, Richard Lloyd. Joseph Smith’s New England Heritage: Influences of Grandfathers Solomon Mack and Asael Smith. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book; Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2003.
This letter was first published in the Times and Seasons and was later published with minor alterations in the 1844 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants. Another manuscript copy of the letter, entirely in William Clayton’s handwriting, is housed in Revelations Collection, CHL. (“Tidings,” Times and Seasons, 15 Sept. 1842, 3:919–920; JS, Nauvoo, IL, to “all the Saints in Nauvoo,” 1 Sept. 1842, in Doctrine and Covenants 105, 1844 ed. [D&C 127].)
William Clayton handwriting ends; Eliza R. Snow begins. Snow lived with the Smith family from 18 August 1842 to 11 February 1843. (Eliza R. Snow, Journal, 14 and 18 Aug. 1842; 11 Feb. 1843.)
Snow, Eliza R. Journal, 1842–1844. CHL. MS 1439.
See Romans 5:3.
See Matthew 5:11–12.
Omitted word supplied from the William Clayton copy of this letter.
See Matthew 16:19; 18:18.