The third and final volume of the Journals series features journal entries from the last year of Joseph Smith's life. Published in 2015, the volume discusses Joseph Smith's teachings and the escalating conflict against Smith and the church.
Although the journal entries capture in detail the words and actions of Joseph Smith, Jr., he neither wrote nor dictated them. They are actually the work of several companions who acted as his scribes or private secretaries, among them Willard Richards and William Clayton--Volum…
The journals provide background information about Joseph Smith's life and early LDS Church history and form the foundation for the official history of the LDS Church. Among the key events described in this volume are the creation of the Relief Society; the building of the Nauvoo…
Volume 2 of the Journals series of The Joseph Smith Smith Papers features the first Nauvoo, Illinois, journal of Joseph Smith as well as part of the second.
