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The latest web content release for the Joseph Smith Papers Project includes more than a hundred documents from June 1844, the final month of Joseph Smith’s life. These documents include items relating to Joseph Smith’s arrest and imprisonment in Carthage, Illinois, and letters to and from family members, particularly his wife Emma, as well as friends, lawyers, church members, and the governor of Illinois. There are also discourses given to the church and to the Nauvoo Legion.
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“A Book . . . Which Shall Be Worthy of All Acceptation”
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By Brett D. Dowdle, Volume Editor
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In early September 1842, Joseph Smith was hiding in the home of Edward Hunter to evade arrest and extradition to Missouri on charges that he had conspired to assassinate former Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs. In this setting, on 6 or 7 September, Smith’s mind returned to the subject of baptism for the dead and a promise he had made just days earlier to send additional instructions and “the word of the Lord” on the ordinance to the Latter-day Saints by mail.[1] Taking advantage of his seclusion, Joseph Smith wrote a nine-page letter to the Saints—which will be featured in the forthcoming Documents, Volume 11—that systematized procedures for baptism for the dead and explained its doctrinal purposes and implications.
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[1] Joseph Smith to “all the saints in Nauvoo,” 1 Sept. 1842, Revelations Collection, CHL.
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