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Notes
Introduction
1. Discourse of 8 April 1844, recorded by William Clayton; Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook, eds., The Words of Joseph Smith: The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph (Orem, Utah: Grandin Book, 1991), 363; hereafter cited as WJS.
2. Discourse of 16 April 1843, recorded by Willard Richards; WJS, 196.
3. 1839 History; Dean C. Jessee, ed., The Papers of Joseph Smith, Vol. 1: Autobiographical and Historical Writings (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1989), 1:372; hereafter cited as PJS.
4. Discourse of 15 October 1843, recorded by Willard Richards; WJS, 256.
5. Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ed. B. H. Roberts, 2d ed. rev., 7 vols. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1957), 6:57.
6. Discourse of 13 April 1843, recorded by Willard Richards; WJS, 191.
7. Discourse of 7 April 1844, recorded by Wilford Woodruff; Donald Q. Cannon and Larry E. Dahl, eds., The Prophet Joseph Smith's King Follett Discourse: A Six-Column Comparison of Original Notes and Amalgamations (Provo, Utah: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, 1983), 40.
8. Discourse of 11 June 1843, recorded by Levi Richards; WJS, 215.
9. Discourse of 12 May 1844, recorded by Thomas Bullock; WJS, 369.
10. Letter to William Smith, 18 December 1835; PJS, 1:175.