February 15, 1967, First Presidency meeting. President [N. Eldon] Tanner stated that [he spoke with] the Professor at the University of Utah [Aziz S. Atiya] who had said that he had access to the parchment from which the Book of Abraham was translated. President Tanner said that in talking to him about two weeks ago, this gentleman said that he felt quite satisfied that we are going to be able to get this parchment but the matter has to be kept as quiet as possible. In answer to President [Joseph Fielding] Smith's question as to where the parchment is, President Tanner said that we do not know exactly where it is, but that it is in a museum and that this gentleman is working with the museum people in an effort to make an exchange of artifacts for this parchment, that we will pay for the artifacts instead of for the parchment.