New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3)Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3)
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Book of Mormon; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
fragment dated January, 1840, for your acceptance, containing the
prophetic lamentation of P. P. Pratt, while chained in prison.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) SARAH M. KIMBALL. [10]
This fragment of the manuscript, now in the possession of President
Joseph F. Smith, is thus described by Elder George Reynolds, in his
_History of the Book of Mormon_:
It consists of twenty-two pages of somewhat rough, unruled writing
paper, more resembling narrow bill-cap than any other size of
paper now made, being a little less than fifteen and a half inches
long and full six and a half inches wide. The paper is now tinged
brown or yellow by time and damp, and the writing in some places
is undecipherable. The pages are numbered 3 to 22, pages 1 and 2
having been lost. The manuscript commences at the second verse of
the second chapter of the First Book of Nephi, and continues to the
thirty-fifth verse of the thirteenth chapter of the same book. * *
* The manuscript is in two, if not three, handwritings. Pages 7 to
18, inclusive, appear to have been written by Oliver Cowdery. Pages
3 to 6 are written in what looks like a woman's hand, possibly that
of Emma Smith; while the handwriting on pages 19 to 22, if not the
same, very much resembles that of pages 3 to 6. The only division
made in the manuscript is into chapters; the sentences are not
divided by punctuation marks and are seldom commenced with capital
letters.
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