Benjamin Ashby recalls seeing papyri and mummies.

Date
1904 - 1907
Type
Manuscript
Source
Benjamin Ashby
LDS
Hearsay
Holograph
Direct
Late
Reference

Benjamin Ashby, Autobiography (circa 1904–1907), [7–8], AC 901.A1a no. 3822, Harold B. Lee Library

Scribe/Publisher
Benjamin Ashby
People
Benjamin Ashby, Joseph Smith, Jr., Lucy Mack Smith, Susan Hammond Ashby
Audience
N/A
Transcription

One day with my mother [Susan Hammond Ashby] I visited [Joseph Smith's] house he was not in But we spent an interesting time with his mother [Lucy Mack Smith] she exhibeted the mummies from which the Book of Abraham was taken as well as the origanal papyrus on which it is written.

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