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Materials on the Joseph Smith Papyri recovered from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; "The Book of Abraham--A Product of the Nineteenth Century, A Critical Study," by Wesley N. Jones; xerox copy of a letter by Oliver Cowdery; and issues of The Salt Lake City Messenger, printed by Modern Microfilm Company.

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Handwritten notes on the questions: Which Papyri Did Joseph Smith Have? Which Fragments of Papyri Were Recovered from the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Photographs of the papyri with discussions concerning them.

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The "Translated" Book of Abraham and The Egyptian Characters That Precede Each of Its Paragraphs, The Numbers of Words in the Paragraphs, and Some Clippings on Ancient Egypt. "My Own Notes and Analyses on the Original 'Translation' of the Book of Abraham by Joseph Smith, Jr.," by A. C. Lambert.

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Photographs of Portions of the Recovered Joseph Papyri. A. C. Lambert notes: "Some Photographs of Parts of the Recovered Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri that I made before either University or church photographers worked on them. Dec. 12, 1967."

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Joseph Smith's "Eye of Ra," A Preliminary Survey and First Translation of Facsimile No. 2 in the Book of Abraham, by Dee Jay Nelson (Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Company, 1968).

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The Joseph Smith Papyri, Part 2, Additional Translations and a Supplimental [sic] Survey of the Ta-shert-Min, Hor and Amen-Terp Papyri, by Dee Jay Nelson (Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Company, 1968).

Scope and Contents "The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri--Translations and Interpretations [entire section with individual articles as follows]": "A Summary Report," by John A. Wilson; "The Joseph Smith Papyri: A Preliminary Report," by Richard A. Parker; "A Tentative Approach to the Book of Abraham," by Richard P. Howard; "The Source of the Book of Abraham Identified," by Grant S. Heward and Jerald Tanner; "The Book of Breathings (Fragment 1, the 'sensen'...

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"The Breathing Permit of Hor, A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham," by Klaus Baer, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume III (Autumn, 1968).

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"Egyptian Papyri Rediscovered," by Jay M. Todd, The Improvement Era, Volume 71 (January, 1968).

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"New Light on Joseph Smith's Egyptian Papyri, Additional Fragment Disclosed," by Doyle L. Green, and "Background of the Church Historian's Fragment," by Jay M. Todd, The Improvement Era, Volume 71 (February, 1968).