Footnotehttp://olivercowdery.com/smithhome/BroBill/KStestimony.htm#1895 Complete quote: “The angel…told him [Joseph] …to go ahead and translate, but not to translate that that was lost, but to begin where he had left off. He commenced, and when he got the record...
Footnote“Late in 1827 or early in ‘[18]28, was the first I heard Harris speak of Jo’s finding the plates…. The plates found by Jo, as represented at the time, purported to be a history of the lost tribes of Israel–and not establishing a new religion, but confirming...
FootnoteDocumentation for the statement that Smith used the seer stone but not the “interpreters” after the lost pages incident: William E. McLellan to Joseph Smith III, from Independence, Mo, Sept. 8, 1872: “The Plates and gift of translation were returned to him...
FootnoteD&C 10: 64-70 Referring to the lost 116 pages, Orsamus Turner asserted: “It was agreed by the Smiths Cowdery and Harris, not to transcribe these again…” (Turner, Phelps and Gorham, p. 214)
