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.
This meeting was held in the large room over JS’s brick store. Baltimore hosted both the Whig and Democratic 1844 national conventions, the former on 1 May—rather than the first Monday in May, which fell on 6 May—and the latter on 27–30 May. (“Public Meeting,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 24 Apr. 1844, [2]; “Whig National Convention,” Daily National Intelligencer [Washington DC], 2 May 1844, [2]; “Democratic National Convention,” Daily National Intelligencer, 1 June 1844, [3]; “Democratic National Convention,” Weekly Ohio Statesman, 5 June 1844, [2].)
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Daily National Intelligencer. Washington DC. 1800–1869.
Weekly Ohio Statesman. Columbus, OH. 1837–1846.
Hyde and Pratt were in Washington DC to present memorials to Congress and President John Tyler. John E. Page, who was in Washington DC on a mission, was also elected to serve as a delegate. The precise role the delegates were to play at the conventions is unclear; John Taylor merely reported that they were to “make overtures” to those attending the convention, which may have included efforts to persuade one of the parties to nominate JS for president or to enlist support among individual delegates for his nomination. Mormon delegates may also have offered candidates or parties Mormon votes in exchange for support of the church’s ongoing efforts to obtain redress from Missouri and greater powers of self-government in Illinois. This last possibility is reflected in the speeches presented at this 23 April meeting, which detailed the church’s grievances, rights, numbers, and political influence. Hollister arrived in Baltimore two or three days after the Whig convention but had not met up with Hyde, Pratt, and Page by 9 May. Hollister planned to attend the Democratic convention later in the month, but it is unknown whether or not he or any of the other delegates did. He later wrote that he was “not a little chagrined at the little sucsess we met with in Baltimore.” (JS, Journal, 12 Feb. and 4 Apr. 1844; Clayton, Journal, 23 Apr. 1844; “Public Meeting,” Nauvoo Neighbor, 24 Apr. 1844, [2]; David Hollister, Baltimore, MD, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 9 May 1844; David Hollister, Wilmington, DE, to JS, Nauvoo, IL, 26 June 1844, JS Collection, CHL.)
Clayton, William. Journals, 1842–1845. CHL.
Nauvoo Neighbor. Nauvoo, IL. 1843–1845.
Two days later, this state convention was rescheduled to be held the Friday following the second Monday in May. (JS, Journal, 25 Apr. and 17 May 1844.)
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