History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

HO THE STORY OF MORMONISM.
printed in the Times and Seasons, which ends here.
It is taken up in the Millennial Star, in diary form,
beginning with volume xv. and continuing to the day
of his death.
information could be given to editors, authors, publishers, and any or all
classes of inquirers that might apply, and he undertook with his clerks, recorder,
and all available aid from private journals, correspondence, and his
own indelible memory, and made it a labor to get his own history, which was
indeed that of the church in all the stages of its growth, while he remained
with his people, compiled and written up to date, which with his own current
journal enabled the historian to complete the history to the time of his
assassination, with the utmost fidelity to facts as they occurred. Our method
of verification, after compilation and rough draft, was to read the same before
a session of the council, composed of the First Presidency and Twelve
Apostles, and there scan everything under consideration.' Richards' Bibliography
of Utah, MS., 2-6.