Secondary Accounts of the First Vision

• Documents (3939)

  Letters, revelations, reports of discourses, minutes, etc.

• Journals (32)

  Journals and diaries

• Administrative Records (1693)

  Minutes and other official records

• Revelations and Translations (60)

  Early manuscript and printed versions of scriptural works

• Histories (52)

  Early histories and draft material for the later History of the Church

• Legal Records (1812)

  Court papers

• Financial Records (389)

  Deeds, promissory notes, invoices, agreements, daybooks, ledgers, etc.

Related Resources

• Other Contemporary Papers

  Selected papers of Joseph Smith's contemporaries

• Calendar of Documents

  Chronological list of all known Joseph Smith documents, including multiple versions of documents

• Comprehensive Works Cited

  List of all sources cited on the Joseph Smith Papers website

Images and Transcripts

• Secondary Accounts of the First Vision (5)
• Additional Material

Related Materials

• Editorial Method

• Orson Hyde, Ein Ruf aus der Wüste, 1842, extract
• Orson Hyde, Ein Ruf aus der Wüste (A Cry out of the Wilderness), 1842, extract, English translation
• Levi Richards, Journal, 11 June 1843, extract
• Interview, 29 August 1843, Extract
• Alexander Neibaur, Journal, 24 May 1844, extract