Charlotte Haven describes her encounter with the Kinderhook Plates.

Date
May 2, 1843
Type
Letter
Source
Charlotte Haven
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Reprint
3rd Hand
Reference

Charlotte Haven, “A Girl’s Letters from Nauvoo,” The Overland Monthly 16 (December 1890): 630. (This letter is dated: “City of Nauvoo, May 2, 1843.”)

Scribe/Publisher
The Overland Monthly
People
Charlotte Haven, Joseph Smith, Jr., Joshua Moore
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

We hear very frequently from our Quincy friends through Mr. Joshua Moore, who passes through that place and this in his monthly zigzag tours through the State, traveling horseback. His last call on us was last Saturday [April 29] and he brought with him half a dozen thin pieces of brass, apparently very old, in the form of a bell about five or six inches long. They had on them scratches that looked like writing, and strange figures like symbolic characters. They were recently found, he said, in a mound a few miles below Quincy. When he showed them to Joseph, the latter said that the figures or writing on them was similar to that in which the Book of Mormon was written, and if Mr. Moore could leave them, he thought that by the help of revelation he would be able to translate them. So a sequel to that holy book may soon be expected.

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