Emma Smith reports that Joseph used the Urim and Thummim before the lost pages and a dark seer stone afterwards.

Mar 27, 1870

Emma Hale Smith Disaffected

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Now the first that my <husband> translated, [the book] was translated by the use of the Urim and Thummim, and that was the part that Martin Harris lost, after that he used a small stone, not exactly, black, but rather a dark color. I can not tell whether that account in the Times and Seasons is correct or not because some one stole <all> my books and I have none to refer to at present, if I can find one that has the account I will tell you what is true and what is not.

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