FootnoteDocumentation for the statement that Smith used the seer stone but not the “interpreters” after the lost pages incident: William E. McLellan to Joseph Smith III, from Independence, Mo, Sept. 8, 1872: “The Plates and gift of translation were returned to him...
FootnoteD&C 10: 64-70 Referring to the lost 116 pages, Orsamus Turner asserted: “It was agreed by the Smiths Cowdery and Harris, not to transcribe these again…” (Turner, Phelps and Gorham, p. 214)
