beastie wrote:I'm not sure I ever heard the full story behind that. I know that an early set was published by Deseret, wasn't it? But they weren't the full journals or something? And did the family threaten to publish them on their own? Refresh my memory!
Wasn't a rhetorical question. I was wondering whether his journals were the ones it took the Mark Hofmann trial to uncover. The Church said they didn't exist, but they had them the whole time... or something like that. I was hoping someone could refresh our memories.
As I recall, as per Robert Lindsey's A Gathering of Saints, the McLellin Collection was in the possession of the Church during the time of the Hofmann forgeries and subsequent bombings. Apparently, however, no one knew about this. The collection had (supposedly) just been sitting around in one of the archives somewhere, and none of the Brethren was aware of it. I think they discovered this fact following the trial, as they went back and tried to determine which of the items were forgeries, and which were authentic.
Mister Scratch wrote:As I recall, as per Robert Lindsey's A Gathering of Saints, the McLellin Collection was in the possession of the Church during the time of the Hofmann forgeries and subsequent bombings. Apparently, however, no one knew about this. The collection had (supposedly) just been sitting around in one of the archives somewhere, and none of the Brethren was aware of it. I think they discovered this fact following the trial, as they went back and tried to determine which of the items were forgeries, and which were authentic.
That makes sense. I don't think there was anything in there one would call controversial, so I can't imagine the LDS Church keeping them under wraps on purpose. Now, those minutes of the Fifty, on the other hand...
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