The following historical documents are presented in these groupings:

1–9: Statements in the Doctrine and Covenants while the translation was under way

10–43: Accounts by participants, eyewitnesses, or people most closely associated with these events, including Joseph and Emma Smith

44–68: Martin Harris, initial scribe and one of the Three Witnesses

69–78: Oliver Cowdery, main scribe and another of the Three Witnesses

79–100: David Whitmer, the most interviewed of the Three Witnesses

101–4: John Whitmer, another of the scribes

105–13: Members of the Joseph Smith Sr. family, including Lucy Mack Smith, William Smith, and Katharine Smith Salisbury

114–19: People who were close to those involved with the translation, including Sarah Conrad, Elizabeth Ann Whitmer, Alva Hale, Isaac Hale, Joseph Knight Sr., and Joseph Knight Jr.

120–206: Statements listed chronologically, beginning in 1829, made in early newspapers or by people who were in a position to have learned from Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, or other early sources (these people are listed alphabetically in the index at the end of this volume)