Booth reports how JS described Moroni's appearance.
Ezra Booth letter to Rev. I. Eddy, 23 October 1831, in "Mormonism--No. III," Ohio Star (Ravenna, Ohio) (27 October 1831).
Smith describes an angel, as having the appearance of a "tall, slim, well built, handsome man, with a bright pillar upon his head." The Devil once, he says, appeared to him in the same form, excepting upon his head he had a "black pillar," and by this mark, he was able to distinguish him from the former.