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Missing from the Joseph Smith papers?
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:47 pm
by deacon blues
I'm disappointed that I can't find the Court records for Joseph's 1826 trial in the Joseph Smith Papers. I'm still searching, and maybe they are somewhere I haven't looked, or maybe they will come out later; but for this and other reasons I'm thinking if Dan Vogel's "Early Mormon Documents" vols. 1-5 is still more comprehensive than the celebrated Joseph Smith papers-- more history, less commentary.
At least the trial is briefly mentioned in the new "Standard of Truth" history. hmm...
Re: Missing from the Joseph Smith papers?
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 4:16 pm
by RubinHighlander
Re: Missing from the Joseph Smith papers?
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:49 pm
by deacon blues
Thanks Ruben. All the accounts I know of are in Dan Vogel's "Early Mormon Documents" series. I am disappointed that there are no accounts in the J.S. Papers for the 1826 trial. At first I thought the Church's editors might have nixed it, but the 1826 trial IS briefly mentioned in the new "Saints: The Standard of Truth" book. It doesn't make sense.
Re: Missing from the Joseph Smith papers?
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2018 8:59 pm
by Palerider
deacon blues wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 2:47 pm
I'm disappointed that I can't find the Court records for Joseph's 1826 trial in the Joseph Smith Papers. I'm still searching, and maybe they are somewhere I haven't looked, or maybe they will come out later; but for this and other reasons I'm thinking if Dan Vogel's "Early Mormon Documents" vols. 1-5 is still more comprehensive than the celebrated Joseph Smith papers-- more history, less commentary.
At least the trial is briefly mentioned in the new "Standard of Truth" history. hmm...
Is it possible they don't want them included?
They are pretty damning.
When I first heard they were going to start collecting the documents for the Joseph Smith papers, I thought, "Oh, good move...if you control the documents, you control the flow of information."
Also wondering if they have to have the actual documents in hand or can they use a verified copy? Being court documents, maybe they aren't available to the church?
Re: Missing from the Joseph Smith papers?
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 11:28 am
by FiveFingerMnemonic
There is definitely some censoring in the JS Papers project. They still redact anything related to temple ordinance penalties as is seen in the papers on the council of fifty minutes.
http://untanglingmybrain.blogspot.com/2 ... y.html?m=1