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New Content on the Joseph Smith Papers Website
The Joseph Smith Papers is pleased to announce its latest web publication. This release features several new documents in the Financial Records series and in the Nauvoo, Illinois, city records, the latter of which are part of the Administrative Records series. The financial records include introductions and documents for the agent papers of William Clayton and of Samuel Bent and George W. Harris, as well as four ship enrollments for the steamboat Maid of Iowa. The city records include 1841 Nauvoo Legion documents and 1843 tax assessor and collector documents. The release also includes ten new documents in the Documents series and new and updated entries in the biographical directory and calendar of documents.
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About the Joseph Smith Papers Project
Joseph Smith (1805–1844) was the founding prophet and first president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Joseph Smith Papers Project is an effort to transcribe, contextualize, and publish all his writings and teachings, including revelations, translations, letters, discourses, journals, histories, and legal and financial records.
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The Joseph Smith Papers will consist of twenty-seven volumes, divided into five series: Documents, Journals, Revelations and Translations, Histories, and Administrative Records; two additional series, the Legal Records series and the Financial Records series, will be published online.