San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin republishes information on Emma Hale Smith purchasing the Joseph Papyri and Mummies.

Date
Sep 25, 1857
Type
News (traditional)
Source
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Reprint
Reference

“Joe Smith’s Mummies, &.,” San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin 4, no. 145 (September 25, 1857): [3]

Scribe/Publisher
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin
People
Emma Hale Smith, Edward Wyman, Abraham, San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Sarai, Joseph Smith, Jr., Lucy Mack Smith
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

JOE SMITH'S MUMMIES, &c.—About a year since, Mr. Wyman, of the Philadelphia Museum, purchased two mummies, one of each sex, from a gentleman who had purchased them directly from the widow of Joe Smith. They were part of the four which Smith pretended to have found with ancient manuscripts, edited by the old patriarchs. While the mother of Smith lived, these mummies, with the hieroglyphics upon papyrus which accompanied them, could not be obtained, but not long after her death they were purchased, as stated, from the prophet's widow. Some of the brethren have had the hardiness to deny that these were the patriarchal manuscripts and relics. But an unanswerable confirmation of the fact has lately occurred—certain plates issued by the elders as fac similies of the original having fallen into Mr. Wyman's hands, which plates are fac similies of the hieroglyphics in the Museum. Let, then, all of Mormon faith go to the Museum, and contemplate the veritable handwriting of the patriarch Abraham. Who knows that the patriarch himself, "and Sarah his wife," are not in the museum?—Philadelphia Sun.

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