At the request of Elder F. M. Lyman of Utah, I make the following certificate: I was born in the town of Richmond, Ontario county, April 13, 1802. I assisted E. B. Grandin in estimating the expense of printing 5,000 copies of the "Mormon" Bible, and the price agreed upon--$3,000. I was the principal compositor of said Bible, commencing on the same in August, 1829, and finishing the same in March, 1830. (Signed) _John H. Gilbert_. I am indebted to Elder Lyman for access to his Journal for the above statement. 3. _History of the Prophet Joseph_, by his mother, chap. 31. 4. Tucker's letter is produced in Bennett's _Mormonism Exposed_, (1842), pages 112, 123. 5. The writer saw and examined the printer's manuscript in the possession of David Whitmer in 1884, and speaks from personal knowledge on this point in the text. 6. It has since been deposited with the President of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, son of the Prophet Joseph, by the grandson of David Whitmer, George Schwiech. 7. The above excerpt from Elder Foote's Journal is published by George Reynolds in a series of articles under the title "History of the Book of Mormon," in the _Contributor_, for 1884. 8. _i. e._ Joseph Smith, son of the Prophet. 9. The Prophet's brother, and for a time editor of the _Times and Seasons_. 10. Mrs. Kimball's letter is published by Elder Geo. Reynolds in his articles on the _History of the Book of Mormon, Contributor_, vol. V, No. 10. 11. _History of the Prophet Joseph_, by Lucy Smith, chaps. 32 and 33. 12. _History of the Prophet Joseph_, by Lucy Smith, chap. 33. 13. See Book of Mormon, Book of Enos, chap. 1:12-18; Mormon 8:24-26; and 9:36, 37; and 5:9-24; I Nephi 13:30-42. CHAPTER IX. AN ANALYSIS OF THE BOOK OF MORMON. With reference to its construction the Book of Mormon separates into three divisions: