Ebenezer Robinson reports that Joseph says BOM translation process not intended for public reading.
Minutes of conference at Orange Township, Ohio, October 25, 1831, in Minute Book 2, 13, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed July 7, 2021
Br. Hyrum Smith said that he thought best that the information of the coming forth of the book of Mormon be related by Joseph himself to the Elders present that all might know for themselves. Br. Joseph Smith jr. said that it was not intended to tell the world all the particulars of the coming forth of the book of Mormon, & also said that it was not expedient for him to relate these things &c.