num_pages: 506
description: The Joseph Smith Papers project is the single most significant historical project of our generation.  Elder Marlin K. Jensen LDS Church HistorianThe Joseph Smith Papers Journals Volume 1: 1832-1839 features Joseph Smith's first five journals. These documents give the reader an appreciation for Joseph Smith's character his private piety and his sense of mission. The Joseph Smith Papers Journals Volume 1: 1832-1839 also convey Joseph Smith's perspective on the spiritual manifestations experienced in the Kirtland Ohio temple the origins of the 'Mormon War' in Missouri and the founding of what would become Nauvoo Illinois  the Mormon city on the Mississippi.The Joseph Smith Papers project will eventually constitute approximately 30 volumes organized into six series. With access to texts not previously available and certainly never in one collection the Joseph Smith Papers project provides new information and insights about Joseph Smith early Mormonism and nineteenth-century American religion. Documents include correspondence journal entries revelations translations discourses official histories court cases and business dealings  qualitatively researched and carefully annotated.
language: English
title: 1832-1839
publisher: The Church Historian's Press