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.
See Matthew 10:36.
JS.
Willard Richards’s accounts of JS’s morning and afternoon discourses are secondhand, since he was not present for either sermon. Other accounts indicate that JS’s morning discourse dealt with his opponents in Nauvoo and that in the afternoon discourse he told the Saints to consider Hyrum Smith a prophet. According to William Clayton, JS said that “Hyrum held the office of prophet to the church by birth-right & he was going to have a reformation and the saints must regard Hyrum for he has authority.” JS may have based his comments on the contents of his 19 January 1841 revelation, which noted that Hyrum Smith was to “take the office of priesthood and patriarch, which was appointed unto him by his father, by blessing and also by right.” The same revelation also appointed Hyrum Smith as a “prophet and a seer and a revelator” for the church. Though church members were aware of the revelation, which was published in June 1841, JS’s statements about Hyrum on the present occasion troubled some of them. The following week, on 23 July, JS responded to their concerns. The statement here about JS becoming a “priest” may refer to the ordinances of the temple and to JS’s ongoing effort to teach these ordinances to selected men and women even before the temple was completed. (Willard Richards, Nauvoo, IL, to Brigham Young, New York City, NY, 18 July 1843, Brigham Young Office Files, CHL; Levi Richards, Journal, 16 July 1843; Clayton, Journal, 16 July 1843; “Extracts,” Times and Seasons, 1 June 1841, 2:428; JS, Journal, 23 July 1843; Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841, in Doctrine and Covenants [103]:29, 1844 ed. [D&C 124:91, 94].)
Brigham Young Office Files, 1832–1878. CHL. CR 1234 1.
Richards, Levi. Journals, 1840–1853. Levi Richards, Papers, 1837–1867. CHL. MS 1284, box 1.
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Times and Seasons. Commerce/Nauvoo, IL. Nov. 1839–Feb. 1846.
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