Historical Document Index

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A

• Address of the Prophet - His Testimony Against the Dissenters at Nauvoo - Joseph Smith, Jr., Sunday, May 26, 1844 - Includes his famous statement "I have more to boast of than ever any man had," and his famous denial of participating in polygamy at a time in which he had numerous wives).

• An Address to All Believers in Christ - author: David Whitmer

B

• Brigham's Destroying Angel by Bill Hickman, 1904 edition

C

• Charles Francis Adams Journal Excerpt May 14, 1844 - May 16, 1844. Describes meeting Joseph Smith while travelling out West with Josiah Quincy. Smith shows Adams and Quincy his Egyptian papyri and points out Abraham's signature to them.
• Charles Anthon to E.D. Howe (Letter)
• Charles Anthon to Thomas Winthrop Coit (Letter)
• Cumorah Prediction by Heber C. Kimball - December 1866

E

• 'Emeline' letter to Warsaw Signal, 15 April 1846 - reveals intriguing details of the Nauvoo Temple ceremony
• Extermination Order from Governor Lilburn W. Boggs

F

• First Presidency letter against "unholy" sex - this letter includes the notorious ban on oral sex and other "unholy practices" between married couples
• First Presidency Statement on the Negro Question - August 17, 1949
• First Presidency on the Rights of the Negro - December 15, 1969

J

• Josiah Quincy, "Joseph Smith at Nauvoo" - Describes meeting Joseph Smith while travelling out West with Charles Francis Adams. Smith shows Adams and Quincy his Egyptian papyri
• Joseph Fielding Smith prophecies against Moon Landing - This is an excerpt of Joseph Fielding Smith May 14, 1961 talk in Honolulu in which he prophecies that humans would never go to the Moon.
• Joseph Smith Egyptian Papers - Sometimes referred to as the "Kirtland Egyptian Papers." Includes extant papri fragments from the 1835 purchase of mummies and papyri, Joseph Smith's attempt to compile a "Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language," his attempt to demonstrate "Egyptian Counting," the Translation Manuscripts used to produce the Book of Abraham, and other miscellaneous documents and artwork related to the 1835 purchase.
• Joseph Smith to John Wentworth (letter)
• Joseph Smith, Jr., As a Translator by Rt. Rev. F.S. Spaulding
• Justice Albert Neely, 1826 Bill - reference to the trial of "Joseph Smith the glass looker"

L

• Lectures on Faith, 1835 edition

M

• Martin Harris Interview with Joel Tiffany - 1859
• Mormonism Exposed - by William Swartzell, 1840
• Mormonism Unvailed - by Eber D. Howe, 1834

O

• Official Statements on the Subject of Evolution from the First Presidency of the LDS Church

P

• A Parallel by B.H. Roberts

• A Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 1845

S

• Smithsonian Form Letter Regarding Its Use of the Book of Mormon
• Sidney Rigdon, 4 July 1838 Address
• Snyder, John J., affidavit, 10 October 1928 - Snyder testifies that David Whitmer knew nothing of the Priesthood restoration until after Joseph Smith's history was published in 1838.

U

• Utah Population Statistics, 1850-1900

W

• William Marks' July 1853 letter to "Zion's Harbinger and Baneemy's Organ" - William Marks alledges that Joseph Smith denounced polygamy three weeks before his death.