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