LaMar Peterson's notes circa 1953:
Was told not to copy or tell what they contained. Said it was a 'strange' account of the First Vision. Was put back in vault. Remains unused, unknown.
https://www.fairmormon.org/answers/Ques ... is_safe%3FIt sounds to me like Dan Peterson is trying to say that the account might have been unknown by Joseph Fielding Smith, so it might not have been a suppression and that justifies his claim that there was no suppression. As if JSF put it in his safe and didn't really know or pay attention to what he was putting in there. One must wonder if LaMar Peterson didn't look into it, when would anyone else have heard of the 1832 account? It took over a decade before the strange account was acknowledged by others. calling it strange and saying it can't be copied or related to anyone else is what suppression is.
Well, since all of that happened, the Church still struggles with this. The essay on the first vision accounts doesn't really acknowledge the strangeness of the '32 account. On Dan's blog he lists a couple of sources from the late 60s early 70s that in his mind detail the issues around this strange account. But sadly, when you read those 3 or 4 items you see that there was hardly any effort to address the strangeness. There was only effort to summarize by saying it wasn't really strange at all.
Interestingly enough, Steven Harper [https://religion.BYU.edu/steven_harper — DCP came and spoke to our stake yesterday. (Yes, in Lyman, Wyoming!) He addressed this very issue, indicating that the account was brought across the plains by Willard Richards, got put into the historian’s office, and was subsequently neglected and lost in the stacks, so to speak. It was discovered by a scholar (Steve didn’t say who) in 1965 and has been widely disseminated since then.]
So Steven Harper's in on this too? it was not discovered in 1965. It was already known about, but kept hidden. can someone inform Steven Harper about what it means to be discovered?
Its funny how we humans tend to paint things in a way we want them to be.
oh and by the way I'm the David B. Glad I got a small mention by the honorable RFM.
