What Brigham Young Said After Joseph Died

What secrets did Brigham Young write to Willard Richards after Joseph Smith was dead? Endowment contradictions? Polygamy secrets? As with much of LDS history, it depends on who you want to believe. But the edits to the letter by the Church are extremely suspicious.

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Notes:

Brigham Young’s original letter: https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/58a1b50f-c250-4190-82c8-5123218b6d19/0/1

Volume 5 no 17 of Times And Seasons: https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/NCMP1820-1846/id/8314/rec/4 (not very user friendly—will have to poke around a bit before you find it)

The text of William Smith’s broadside printed in the Warsaw Signal can be found here: http://www.sidneyrigdon.com/dbroadhu/IL/sign1845.htm#1029

The edited version of Brigham’s letter in the LDS Church history can be found here: https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/history-1838-1856-volume-f-1-1-may-1844-8-august-1844/291