tonie Posted February 8, 2015 Posted February 8, 2015 Does anyone know what "Manuscript History" is? I discovered the reference this morning in relation to mark of cain. The often cited source is "Manuscript History 19 June 1831" Just curious about the source.
ksfisher Posted February 9, 2015 Posted February 9, 2015 "On 11 June 1839, while residing at Commerce, Illinois, JS enlisted the services of James Mulholland as scribe and began dictating what his journal simply referred to as his “history.” Mulholland had previously written for JS in 1838, and in April 1839 he began keeping JS’s earliest Illinois journal. The “history” JS now so modestly commenced eventually swelled to six volumes and over 2,400 pages and came to be known as the “Manuscript History of the Church” (in The Joseph Smith Papers it bears the editorial title “History, 1838–1856”). Work on the task spanned seventeen years, traversing the settlement of Nauvoo, the murder of JS and his brother Hyrum, and the Saints’ passage from Nauvoo to the Salt Lake Valley. JS and a host of others, including Willard Richards, Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, George A. Smith, Wilford Woodruff, and at least ten clerks or scribes, supported and sustained the project despite persistent adversity and disruption." http://josephsmithpapers.org/doc/introduction-to-history-1838-1856-manuscript-history-of-the-church 2
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