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