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Lucy Mack Smith's biography of Joseph Smith
Did Brigham Young attempt to destroy all copies of Lucy Mack Smith's biography of Joseph Smith?
Template loop detected: Question: Did Brigham Young attempt to suppress and destroy all copies of Lucy Mack Smith's ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith''? Template loop detected: Question: Did Brigham Young insert the reference to Joseph's First Vision into Lucy Mack Smith's history? Template loop detected: Question: Was the Prophet's mother Lucy Mack Smith silent about Joseph's history?
Template loop detected: Question: Did Brigham Young attempt to suppress and destroy all copies of Lucy Mack Smith's ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith''? Template loop detected: Question: Did Brigham Young insert the reference to Joseph's First Vision into Lucy Mack Smith's history? Template loop detected: Question: Was the Prophet's mother Lucy Mack Smith silent about Joseph's history?
Template loop detected: Question: Did Brigham Young attempt to suppress and destroy all copies of Lucy Mack Smith's ''Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith''? Template loop detected: Question: Did Brigham Young insert the reference to Joseph's First Vision into Lucy Mack Smith's history? Template loop detected: Question: Was the Prophet's mother Lucy Mack Smith silent about Joseph's history?
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Notes
Editions of Lucy's History
(by date of publication)
- Lucy Mack Smith, Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, and His Progenitors for Many Generations (Liverpool, S.W. Richards, 1853), 1–.
- Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother (Salt Lake City: Stevens and Wallis, 1945), 1–.
- Lucy Mack Smith, The History of Joseph Smith By His Mother Lucy Mack Smith, edited by Preston Nibley, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1956), 1–. AISN B000FH6N04.
- Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced, edited by Scot Facer Proctor and Maurine Jensen Proctor, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1996), 1–. ISBN 1570082677.
- Lucy Smith, Lucy's Book: Critical Edition of Lucy Mack Smith's Family Memoir, edited by Lavina Fielding Anderson and Irene M. Bates, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Signature Books, 2001), 1–. ISBN 1560851376.
- Lucy Mack Smith, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother Lucy Mack Smith: The Unabridged Original Version, edited by R. Virnon Ingleton, (Stratford Books, 2005), 1–. ISBN 0929753054.