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The published Pratt/Smith report is a third-person narrative of their 7-8 Sept 1878 visit to David Whitmer at Richmond, Missouri. It is the fourth surviving account of that visit, alongside:
Opening (per WhitmerCollege transcription): "At Richmond we [Orson Pratt and Joseph F. Smith] put up at the Shaw House (before the cyclone a three-story brick building, but has been restored since the tempest, only two stories), now kept by Mr. Warren Ewing, son-in-law to the original proprietor, Mr. S. Shaw, once a freighter to Utah, now dead."
Closing: "This ended our interview with the last remaining witness who saw the plates of the Book of Mormon, yet not the last witness of its truth, for now such witnesses are multiplied into tens of thousands."