Summary
The first published account of the First Vision and the visits of the angel Moroni, the hill Cumorah and the gold plates, written by a missionary for readers who had never heard them. It adds the printed testimonies of the Three and the Eight Witnesses and a short statement of the Church’s beliefs.
The book
- Author
- Orson Pratt
- Date of the work
- Written 1840 (Edinburgh); recorded from the 1842 edition
- Edition recorded
- Third American edition (New York: Joseph W. Harrison, 1842)
- Listening time
- 1 h 10 min
- Chapters
- 4
Where this text comes from
Orson Pratt first published the pamphlet in Edinburgh in 1840. This recording follows the third American edition (New York, 1842), transcribed from archive.org scans by Tom Nysetvold for Project Gutenberg (released February 14, 2014), who kept the original’s odd orthography and corrected only plain printer’s errors.
The pamphlet has no chapters in print; it is divided here at its natural turns, with short titles supplied.
Public domain
Public domain, free to share. The text of An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions is in the public domain in the United States. It was first published in 1840, and the edition recorded here appeared in 1842. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright there.
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