Item Detail
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2768
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5
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2
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English
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A Letter Regarding the Acquisition of the Book of Abraham
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BYU Studies
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Summer 1980
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20
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402-3
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"Among the "Miscellaneous Manuscripts" in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress is an 1835 letter from Albert Brown to which he expresses his feelings about the Church in Kirtland and also provides interesting corroborative details concerning the history of the acquisition of the Egyptian mummies and papyrus records. His report that the price of $2400 was paid to Michael Chandler for the mummies and the records is a nearly contemporary account--written just four months after the purchase--and it agrees exactly with the figure that appears twenty-one years later in L. C. Bidamon's certificate of provenance, submitted with the mummies to A. Combs in 1856." [Publisher's abstract]
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Documents, Volume 4: April 1834-September 1835
The Joseph Smith Papyri and the Writings of Joseph of Egypt
The Latter Day Saints in Ohio : Writing the History of Mormonism's Middle Period
The Worlds of Joseph Smith : A Bicentennial Conference at the Library of Congress
"Will the Murderers Be Hung?" : Albert Brown's 1844 Letter and the Martyrdom of Joseph Smith