Lucy Mack Smith's 1829 Letter to Mary Smith Pierce

Editor's note: Please be aware that the document described in this article is a Mark Hofmann forgery. For information about the events surrounding the Mark Hofmann forgeries, see Richard E. Turley Jr., Victims: The LDS Church and the Mark Hofmann Case (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992); Richard E. Turley Jr., "Manuscripts, Murder, and a Miniseries: A Personal Essay"; and J. B. Haws, "Murder among the Mormons: Reflections on the Docuseries—and on Its Historical and Theological Implications."