January 22, 1840
In response to false rumors, Joseph Smith wrote a letter to the editor of the Chester County Register and Examiner relating the Church's beliefs concerning civil governments.
Writings
About February 22, 1840
Joseph Smith wrote his autograph in the family album of the Wilkinsons, nonmembers in Philadelphia who later joined the Church.
March 11, 1840
Joseph Smith dictated a letter to Robert D. Foster, who had spent four months with the Prophet on his journey to the nation's capital. Foster and Joseph Smith had returned to Illinois together, after having left Sidney Rigdon in Philadelphia, Elias Higbee in Washington, D.C., and Orrin Porter Rockwell in Dayton, Ohio.
About April 8, 1840
Joseph Smith and his clerk Robert B. Thompson prepared credentials for Orson Hyde, recommending him as a worthy representative of the Church to the Jews in foreign lands. Hyde's ultimate destination was Jerusalem, Palestine.
June 18, 1840
Joseph Smith dictated a letter to the Nauvoo high council, petitioning for a release from attending to temporal concerns.
June 29, 1840
Joseph Smith later received a letter written by William W. Phelps on this date, wherein Phelps admitted the wrongs he had committed against Joseph and asked for his forgiveness.
July 14, 1840
Joseph Smith wrote to the Saints at the Crooked Creek Branch in Illinois (later Ramus, Hancock County), approving the organization of a stake there. The stake was later discontinued by Hyrum Smith at a conference on December 4-5, 1841.
July 22, 1840
After William W. Phelps requested forgiveness, Joseph Smith dictated a letter granting that forgiveness and inviting him to return to the Church.
About July 26, 1840
Joseph Smith dictated a letter to Oliver Granger, the agent assigned to settle Church debts at Kirtland, Ohio.
August 9, 1840
Joseph Smith wrote a letter to a friend of the Church, John C. Bennett, of Wayne County, Illinois, inviting him to come visit Nauvoo.
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