Editing King Follett discourse (section)

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A full, verbatim account of the speech does not exist, but notes exist, taken contemporaneously, by [[Thomas Bullock (Mormon)|Thomas Bullock]] (using a type of personal shorthand), [[William Clayton (Latter Day Saints)|William Clayton]] (writing in longhand), and [[Willard Richards]] (taking "minute"-style notes of major elements of the speech).<ref name="Larson 1978">{{harvtxt|Larson|1978}}.</ref> [[Wilford Woodruff]] also took extensive contemporaneous notes and transferred the notes to his journal with editorializations, but his original notes were not preserved.<ref name="Larson 1978"/> One author (Searle) estimates that the surviving notes of the sermon contain roughly 30% of the words of the actual address, but that together, they are likely nearly topically complete.<ref>{{harvtxt|Searle|1979}}.</ref>

A version reconstructed (by Bullock) from the Bullock and Clayton records was published in the church paper ''[[Times and Seasons]]'' of August 15, 1844.  A later version resulted from amalgamation of the Richards, Woodruff, Bullock and Clayton texts.  This amalgamation was done by church employee, Jonathan Grimshaw, roughly ten years after Smith's death and is generally regarded as the official version of [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) because it was carefully reviewed, edited, and approved by church authorities, including [[Brigham Young]].<ref>{{harvtxt|Larson|1978|loc=fn. 11}}.</ref> It contains some text not found in any of the primary sources and contains redundancies resulting from the naïve reconstruction. These redundancies, and the parts added by Grimshaw without support in the contemporaneous notes, were removed in a modern amalgamation by [[Stan Larson]] in 1978.<ref name="Larson 1978"/>