Primary sources about the coming forth and early reception of the Book of Mormon: statements by Joseph Smith, the witnesses, accounts of the translation, reviews from its own day, and the lost 116 pages.
Statements by Joseph Smith about the Book of Mormon. 26 statements.
Those who testified they saw and handled the plates. 360 accounts.
How the Book of Mormon was brought forth and rendered into English. 155 documents.
How the book was reviewed, attacked, and defended in its own day. 580 documents.
Primary sources on what the lost manuscript contained. 24 sources.
Part of this collection draws on the 19th-Century Publications about the Book of Mormon archive published by the Maxwell Institute and housed in Digital Collections at the BYU Library.