MormonTimes.com: Joseph Smith Papers will change landscape, editor says

From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: March 13, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

PROVO -- A class on the seven-year development of the Joseph Smith Papers Project was a highlight of the annual Association of Mormon Letters conference, where novelists, playwrights and scholars gathered Saturday at Brigham Young University to celebrate LDS literature.

The Joseph Smith Papers is an effort to publish "anything written by (the Prophet), dictated by him or received by him," said Robin Jensen, an editor for the project. "This is an exciting project and we are really faced with a tremendous amount of documents."

The first edition will be split into five series: the Prophet's ...

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