---
title: History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I
description: Published in 1908, covers 1839 to May 1842, including the founding of Nauvoo, the mission of the Twelve Apostles to Britain and Smith's sermons and letters of those years.
authors:
  - Roberts, B. H.
author_role: editor
about:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - history
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - history
  - autobiography
  - joseph-smith
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
volume: 4
published: "1908"
publisher: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
edition: First edition, 6 volumes (Salt Lake City, 1902 to 1912)
language: en
type: book
reference: '"Title page," in *History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I*, ed. B. H. Roberts, vol. 4 (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1908).'
source:
  url: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60708
  identifier: gutenberg-60708
  transcription: "Project Gutenberg eBook #60708 (Mormon Texts Project proofreading of the 1908 edition). The Gutenberg header, license and transcriber notes are not included."
curator_note: A Mormon source published by the church and edited by B. H. Roberts; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. The first-person narrative was largely compiled by clerks and historians after the events it describes; Roberts's introductions, marginal notes and footnotes are his editorial additions.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1908 US publication (Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; introduction and notes by B. H. Roberts); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60708
  publication_year: 1908
  note: Period I only (volumes 1 to 6). Period II (volume 7, 1932, and later volumes) is not public domain and is not included.
---

# Title page

HISTORY

OF THE

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST

OF

LATTER-DAY SAINTS

PERIOD I.

History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet,

By Himself.

Volume IV.

An Introduction and Notes

By

B. H. Roberts

Published by the Church.

Salt Lake City, Utah,

1908.