Emma Smith reports that Joseph used the Urim and Thummim before the lost pages and a dark seer stone afterwards.

Date
Mar 27, 1870
Type
Letter
Source
Emma Hale Smith
Disaffected
Hearsay
Direct
Late
Reference

Letter from Emma Smith to Emma Pilgrim, March 27, 1870, in the Emma Smith Papers, Library-Archives, Community of Christ, Independence, Mo

Scribe/Publisher
Emma Hale Smith
People
John T. Clark, Emma Hale Smith, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
John T. Clark
PDF
Transcription

Now the first that my <husband> translated, [the book] was translated by the use of the Urim and Thummim, and that was the part that Martin Harris lost, after that he used a small stone, not exactly, black, but rather a dark color. I can not tell whether that account in the Times and Seasons is correct or not because some one stole <all> my books and I have none to refer to at present, if I can find one that has the account I will tell you what is true and what is not.

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