"Glad tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfilment of the prophets—the book to be revealed." (D&C 128:20) President Nelson: "Good inspiration is based upon good information." Latter-day Saints must read Oliver Cowdery's Letter VII to understand Church history and the Book of Mormon. “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." –Haruki Murakami
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We had a conversation about the origin of "two sets of plates" on Mormon Book Reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bCVFCOVdfg
Some screen shots:
Several years ago I worked with an African illustrator to create a book for African Latter-day Saints that explained Church history from their perspective, including African culture. We published it in 2021.
Here is the cover for the French edition:
One part of the book explained the two sets of plates.
Joseph's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, related this account of Joseph and Oliver contacting David Whitmer in May 1829.
In the mean time Joseph was 150 miles distant and knew naught of the matter e[x]cept an intimation that was given through the urim and thumim for as he one morning applied the<m> latter to his eyes to look upon the record instead of the words of the book being given him he was commanded to write a letter to one David Whitmore [Whitmer] this man Joseph had never seen but he was instructed to say him that he must come with his team immediately in order to convey Joseph and his family <Oliver [Cowdery]> back to his house which was 135 miles that they might remain with him there untill the translation should be completed for that an evil designing people were seeking to take away Joseph’s life in order to prevent the work of God from going forth among the world
https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/lucy-mack-smith-history-1844-1845/100
Here are some of the images:
I've visited several of these, but most are long gone.
Greg Matsen at the Cwic Show interviewed me about the two sets of plates article by Don Bradley in BYU Studies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WExjn1MZt3k
Time constraints kept us from answering all the questions, so here are some additional references to consider.
The original book about two sets of plates, Whatever Happened to the Golden Plates?, is available on Kindle and print on Amazon and Digitalegend.
https://www.amazon.com/Whatever-Happened-Golden-Jonathan-Neville/dp/1544822723
The Rational Restoration also has a section on the two sets of plates.
https://www.amazon.com/Rational-Restoration-Jonathan-Neville/dp/1964978319
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