SS tells MF that JS's education was "very limited."

Date
Feb 11, 1881
Type
Letter
Source
Simon Smith
LDS
Hearsay
2nd Hand
Reprint
Reference

Simon Smith, Letter to Mark Forscutt, February 11, 1881, RLDS Church Library-Archives, Independence, Missouri in Dan Vogel, ed., Early Mormon Documents, 5 vols. (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1999), 2:382

Scribe/Publisher
Simon Smith
People
Simon Smith, Joseph Smith, Jr., Mark Forscutt
Audience
General Public
Transcription

He also said that Joseph Smith Jun’s. means of support, and education at the time of the translation of the plates was very limited. That he did not know how to draw up a note of hand properly, and knowing it was the will of got [God] to assist him he did so willingly.

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