Title :
Emma retained custody of the
Year :
1845, 1879
POI :
Bernhisel,Emma,Smith,Ely,King,Young
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Emma retained custody of the JST manuscripts for over 20 years, with a single noteworthy exception. One year after her husbands death, she allowed Dr. John Bernhisel, a physician and friend of her husband, to make a copy. John M. Bernhisel Emma Smith Spring 1845 The Bernhisel manuscript Original returned to Emma Smith Original loaned to Bernhisel To Uta
Notes :
https://rsc.byu.edu/joseph-smith-translation/joseph-smiths-translation-bible Quote from Diary of L. John Nuttall, 1:335, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, under date of 10 September 1879 as cited in Joseph Smiths Translation of the Bible: A Historical Overview by Robert L. Millet:Elder John M. Bernhisel called at the request of Pres. Taylor and explained concerning his manuscript copy of the New Translation of the Bible as taken from the Manuscript of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Bro. Bernhisel stated: "I had great desires to see the New Translation, but did not like to ask for it; but one evening, being at Bro. Joseph's house about a year after his death, Sister Emma to my surprise asked me if I would not like to see it. I answered, yes. She handed it to me the next day, and I kept it in my custody about three months. She told me it was not prepared for the press, as Joseph had designed to go through it again. I did not copy all that was translated leaving some few additions and changes that were made in some of the books. But so far as I did copy, I did so as correctly as I could do. The markings in my Bible correspond precisely with the markings in the Prophet Joseph's Bible, so that all the books corrected in his Bible so far as I now know are marked in my Bible: but as I stated, the additions are not all made in my Manuscript of those books that I did not copy."
Emma retained custody of the
Year :
1845, 1879
POI :
Bernhisel,Emma,Smith,Ely,King,Young
City :
Scripture Reference :
Content :
Emma retained custody of the JST manuscripts for over 20 years, with a single noteworthy exception. One year after her husbands death, she allowed Dr. John Bernhisel, a physician and friend of her husband, to make a copy. John M. Bernhisel Emma Smith Spring 1845 The Bernhisel manuscript Original returned to Emma Smith Original loaned to Bernhisel To Uta
Notes :
https://rsc.byu.edu/joseph-smith-translation/joseph-smiths-translation-bible Quote from Diary of L. John Nuttall, 1:335, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, under date of 10 September 1879 as cited in Joseph Smiths Translation of the Bible: A Historical Overview by Robert L. Millet:Elder John M. Bernhisel called at the request of Pres. Taylor and explained concerning his manuscript copy of the New Translation of the Bible as taken from the Manuscript of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Bro. Bernhisel stated: "I had great desires to see the New Translation, but did not like to ask for it; but one evening, being at Bro. Joseph's house about a year after his death, Sister Emma to my surprise asked me if I would not like to see it. I answered, yes. She handed it to me the next day, and I kept it in my custody about three months. She told me it was not prepared for the press, as Joseph had designed to go through it again. I did not copy all that was translated leaving some few additions and changes that were made in some of the books. But so far as I did copy, I did so as correctly as I could do. The markings in my Bible correspond precisely with the markings in the Prophet Joseph's Bible, so that all the books corrected in his Bible so far as I now know are marked in my Bible: but as I stated, the additions are not all made in my Manuscript of those books that I did not copy."