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Interviews on Wednesday February 17, 1836 at Kirtland, Ohio.
Source: Warren Parrish record in Joseph Smith journal, LDS Archives

Lends Mummies and Papyri for Exhibition

attend the school and read and translated with my class as usual . . . This evening Elder Coe1 called to make some arangements about the Egyptian records and the mummies, he proposes to hire a room at J Johnsons Inn and exibit them there from day to day at certain hours, that some benefit may be derived from them - I complied with his request, and only observed that they must be managed with prudence and care especially the manuscripts


1. Coe was one of the principal contributors in the purchase of the relics from Michael Chandler the previous year. Joseph had been bothered so frequently by visitors wanting to see the artifacts that it must have seemed a reasonable idea to defray the original cost by displaying them for a fee. Joseph seems to have stopped working with the Egyptian scrolls from this point until 1842 in Nauvoo.
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