George F. Gibbs mentions one of Brigham Young's daughters having a stone.
- Type
- Letter
- Source
- George F. Gibbs LDS
- Hearsay
- Direct
- Reference
First Presidency Letterpress, p. 355 [no date, 43 6-6-6-6, surrounded by letters dated 1911], Abbreviated typescript, Scott Kenny Papers, Box 2
- Scribe/Publisher
- George F. Gibbs
- Audience
- N/A
- Transcription
gfg to mp re use of seer stones; gfg lived w by for a while - 1 of his daus found such a stone - cld see persons & animals & things in it at will, & cld tell t whhereabouts of lost property. by had t stone carefully kept until she would be a responsible woman.
- BHR Staff Commentary
"mp" stands for "mission president." Orson D. Romney was the New Zealand mission president at the time and had written regarding a young woman in New Zealand using a seer stone. Gibbs's letter was the response.
The letter's full citation is George F. Gibbs, letter to Orson D. Romney, June 20, 1911, FPL. Jonathan A. Stapley quotes and cites a CHL-verified transcript of the letter in The Power of Godliness: Mormon Liturgy and Cosmology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), 115, 170.
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