CHL--Church History Library. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City.

D&C--Doctrine and Covenants

EMS--The Evening and the Morning Star[1]

FWR--Donald Q. Cannon and Lyndon W. Cook, eds. Far West Record: Minutes of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1844. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1983.

HC--B. H. Roberts, ed. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 2nd ed. rev. 7 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1957.

JD--Journal of Discourses

JSP--Joseph Smith Papers (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press)[2]

JSP, CFM--Matthew J. Grow, Ronald K. Esplin, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, and Jeffrey D. Mahas, eds. Administrative Records: Council of Fifty, Minutes, March 1844–January 1846. Vol. 1 of the Administrative Records series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin, Matthew J. Grow, and Matthew C. Godfrey. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.

JSP, D1--Michael Hubbard MacKay, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, eds. Documents, Volume 1: July 1828–June 1831. Vol. 1 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, Richard Lyman Bushman, and Matthew J. Grow. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2013.

JSP, D2--Matthew C. Godfrey, Mark Ashurst-McGee, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, eds. Documents, Volume 2: July 1831–January 1833. Vol. 2 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, Richard Lyman Bushman, and Matthew J. Grow. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2013.

JSP, D3--Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Brent M. Rogers, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, eds. Documents, Volume 3: February 1833–March 1834. Vol. 3 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin and Matthew J. Grow. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2014.

JSP, D4--Matthew C. Godfrey, Brenden W. Rensink, Alex D. Smith, Max H Parkin, and Alexander L. Baugh, eds. Documents, Volume 4: April 1834–September 1835. Vol. 4 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin, Matthew J. Grow, and Matthew C. Godfrey. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2016.

JSP, D5--Brent M. Rogers, Elizabeth A. Kuehn, Christian K. Heimburger, Max H Parkin, Alexander L. Baugh, and Steven C. Harper, eds. Documents, Volume 5: October 1835–January 1838. Vol. 5 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin, Matthew J. Grow, and Matthew C. Godfrey. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2017.

JSP, D6--Mark Ashurst-McGee, David W. Grua, Elizabeth A. Kuehn, Brenden W. Rensink, and Alexander L. Baugh, eds. Documents, Volume 6: February 1838–August 1839. Vol. 6 of the Documents series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin, Matthew J. Grow, and Matthew C. Godfrey. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2017.

JSP, H1--Karen Lynn Davidson, David J. Whittaker, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Histories, Volume I: Joseph Smith Histories, 1832–1844. Vol. 1 of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2012.

JSP, H2--Karen Lynn Davidson, Richard L. Jensen, and David J. Whittaker, eds. Histories, Volume 2: Assigned Histories, 1831–1847. Vol. 2 of the Histories series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2012.

JSP, J1--Dean C. Jessee, Mark Ashurst-McGee, and Richard L. Jensen, eds. Journals, Volume 1: 1832–1839. Vol. 1 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2008.

JSP, J2--Andrew H. Hedges, Alex D. Smith, and Richard Lloyd Anderson, eds. Journals, Volume 2: December 1841–April 1843. Vol. 2 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2011.

JSP, J3--Andrew H. Hedges, Alex D. Smith, and Brent M. Rogers, eds. Journals, Volume 3: May 1843–June 1844. Vol. 3 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Ronald K. Esplin and Matthew J. Grow. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2015.

JSP, MRb--Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, and Steven C. Harper, eds. Revelations and Translations: Manuscript Revelation Books. Facsimile ed. Vol. 1 of the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2009.

JSP, R2--Robin Scott Jensen, Richard E. Turley Jr., and Riley M. Lorimer, eds. Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations. Vol. 2 of the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2011.

M&a--Latter Day Saints’ Messenger and Advocate

MB1--“Minute Book 1,” also known as the “Kirtland Council Minute Book” or the “Kirtland High Council Minutes.” It is 264 pages and has entries beginning October 10, 1832, and ending November 30, 1837. Published on the Joseph Smith Papers website.

MB2--“Minute Book 2,” a 178-page compilation of minutes of conferences, councils, and other meetings from 1830 to 1839, as well as two entries from 1844, located in the Church History Library, Salt Lake City. Published on the Joseph Smith Papers website. This compilation is also referred to as the Far West Record (FWR).

MCJC--Susan Easton Black, comp. Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830–1848. 50 vols. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1989.

MHC--Manuscript History of the Church (also known as “Historian’s Office History of the Church”). 6 vols. Church History Library, Salt Lake City. Published on the Joseph Smith Papers website.

MRP--Clark V. Johnson, ed. Mormon Redress Petitions: Documents of the 1833–1838 Missouri Conflict. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1992.

NN--Nauvoo Neighbor

PJS--Dean C. Jessee, ed. The Papers of Joseph Smith. 2 vols. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989–92.

PWJS--Dean C. Jessee, comp. and ed. The Personal Writings of Joseph Smith. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2002.

T&S--Times and Seasons

TPJS--Joseph Fielding Smith, comp. Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1938.

WWJ--Scott G. Kenney, ed. Wilford Woodruff’s Journal. 9 vols. Midvale, UT: Signature Books, 1983–1989.

WWPL--Bruce A. Van Orden, ed. “Writing to Zion: The William W. Phelps Kirtland Letters (1835–1836).” BYU Studies 33, no. 3 (1993): 542–91.

WWPP--“William Wines Phelps (1792–1872) Papers.” Vault MSS 810. L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT. There are seventeen items, all of which are handwritten. The items have been cleaned and enclosed in protective covers. Included in the collection are photocopies and typescripts of all the items. This collection was donated to the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at BYU by Stanley LeRoy Allen Jr. and Jeanne A. Clawson in July 2002. These materials originally belonged to Sarah Delilah Varney Allen, a granddaughter of W. W. Phelps. She gave them to her son, Stanley LeRoy Allen, and upon his death they were acquired by Stanley LeRoy Allen Jr., the donor.

Notes

Original spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been retained in all quoted sources, with bracketed insertions used only when deemed helpful for sense.

[1] Quotations herein from the Star are taken from the transcriptions available at http://www.centerplace.org/history/ems/. This archive follows the original text of the 1832–34 issues of the Star rather than the revised text of the 1835 reprinting. Because the original eight-page installments of the Star did not include page numbers, they have been added in brackets, following the editorial method used in The Joseph Smith Papers (see Robin Scott Jensen, Robert J. Woodford, and Steven C. Harper, eds., Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations, vol. 2 of the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers, ed. Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman [Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2011], 201).

[2] Quoted transcriptions from the JSP follow the spelling and punctuation therein but not the use of strikeouts and other editorial symbols beyond underlining and the bracketing of correcting or clarifying text. I use braces to distinguish my own editorial insertions from the JSP text.