Lucy Smith addresses charges her family engaged in magic circles, sooth saying and neglected their business.

Date
1844 - 1845
Type
Manuscript
Source
Lucy Mack Smith
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, Page [10], bk. 3, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed September 7, 2021

Scribe/Publisher
Martha Jane Knowlton Coray
People
Lucy Mack Smith Family, Lucy Mack Smith
Audience
Latter-day Saints, Reading Public
Transcription

Now I shall change my theme for the present but let not my reader suppose that because I shall pursue another topic for a season that we stopt our labor and went <​at​> trying to win the faculty of Abrac drawing Magic circles or sooth saying to the neglect of all kinds of buisness we never during our lives suffered one important interest to swallow up every other obligation but whilst we worked with our hands we endeavored to remmember the service of & the welfare of our souls.

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