No Man Knows My History (Arkosh History)

by Fawn M. Brodie

Emma was Joseph’s first scribe. She never saw the plates, although they often lay on the table wrapped in a small linen tablecloth. Despite her skepticism and bewilderment Joseph ap* Unpublished affidavit o£ Lorenzo Saunders made in Reading, Michigan, September 20, 1884, now in the library of the Reorganized Church, t For Hale’s complete statement see Appendix A. parently had so frightened her about the consequences of examining them that she dared finger them under their covering only when she moved them to dust the table. “They seemed to be pliable like thick paper,” she later said, “and would rustle with a metallic sound when the edges were moved by the thumb as one does sometimes thumb the edges of a book.” *