Use of a Curtain during the Book of Mormon Translation

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Orsamus Turner (1852): "the Prophet Joseph, curtained from the world and them, with his spectacles, read from the gold plates"

Orsamus Turner:

Harris assumed, that himself and Cowdery were the chosen amanuenses, and that the Prophet Joseph, curtained from the world and them, with his spectacles, read from the gold plates what they committed to paper. ^[1]

Notes

1. ↑ Orsamus Turner, History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham’s Purchase and Morris’ Reserve (1852) 215.