TGM mentions institutional support behind project to catalogue known First Vision accounts.
Truman G. Madsen, "Guest Editor's Prologue," BYU Studies 9, no. 3 (Spring 1969):237, 238
In that spirit, then, we announce with unqualified approval the meticulous work being done under Earl Olson's staff at the LDS Historian's Office. Archivist Dean Jessee's paper herein [publishing the known firsthand First Vision accounts] is a subtopic of that project. . . . Unknown to some, this patient reconstruction has been underway for some time at the instance [sic] of the Church authorities. It is now beginning to be made available to interested scholars.