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Lost 116 pages
The "lost 116 pages" were the original manuscript pages of what Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, said was the translation of the Book of Lehi,〔Along with the Book of Lehi, Royal Skousen, Editor of The Book of Mormon Critical Text Project, says that in the printers manuscript of the Book of Mosiah, the first chapter is listed as Chapter 3. Skousen proposes that all or part of the first two chapters were lost with the 116 pages. Skousen notes that every other book in the Book of Mormon is named for its primary author; but the Book of Mosiah begins with King Benjamin and is not named for him. Also, Mosiah does not begin with an introduction of the author or an explanatory introduction as is typical with other Book of Mormon books but "begins in the middle of things." Skousen speculates that the original first chapter related Mosiah's flight from the land of Nephi to Zarahemla and that the second chapter discussed King Benjamin's early reign and wars..〕 the first portion of the golden plates revealed to him by an angel in 1827. These pages, which had not been copied, were lost by Smith's scribe Martin Harris during the summer of 1828 and are presumed to have been destroyed. Smith completed the Book of Mormon without retranslating the Book of Lehi, replacing it with what he claimed was an abridgment taken from the Plates of Nephi.〔(1 Nephi 1:17 ).〕
== Background ==
Joseph Smith said that on September 22, 1827, he had recovered a set of buried golden plates in a prominent hill near his parents' farm in Manchester, New York. Martin Harris, a respectable but superstitious〔A biographer of Harris wrote that his "imagination was excitable and fecund." Harris once imagined that a sputtering candle was the work of the devil. He told a friend that he had met Jesus in the shape of a deer and walked and talked with him for two or three miles. (John A. Clark letter, August 31, 1840 in ''Early Mormon Documents'', 2: 271.) The local Presbyterian minister called him "a visionary fanatic." (Ronald W. Walker, "Martin Harris: Mormonism's Early Convert," ''Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought'' 19 (Winter 1986):34-35.) A friend, who praised Harris as "universally esteemed as an honest man," also declared that Harris's mind "was overbalanced by 'marvellousness'" and that his belief in earthly visitations of angels and ghosts gave him the local reputation of being crazy.(Pomeroy Tucker reminiscence, 1858 in ''Early Mormon Documents'' 3: 71.) Another friend said, "Martin was a man that would do just as he agreed with you. But, he was a great man for seeing spooks." (Lorenzo Saunders Interview, November 12, 1884, ''Early Mormon Documents'' 2: 149); .〕 farmer from nearby Palmyra, became an early believer and gave Smith $50 to finance the translation of the plates.〔; ; ; .〕 Harris's wife Lucy also donated some of her own money and offered to give more, even though Smith denied her request to see the plates and told her that "in relation to assistance, I always prefer dealing with men rather than their wives."〔.〕
Smith moved with his wife to her hometown of Harmony, Pennsylvania, in late October 1827, where he began transcribing the writing on the plates.〔.〕 When Harris left Palmyra to visit Smith without taking his wife along, she became suspicious that Smith intended to defraud her and her husband.〔.〕
On Harris's return, Lucy refused to share his bed, and she had a suitor of her daughter surreptitiously copy the characters on the Anthon transcript that Smith had given to Harris.〔;〕 Lucy then accompanied her husband back to Harmony in April 1828, when Martin agreed to serve as Smith's scribe.〔.〕 Before returning home after two weeks, Lucy searched the Smith house and grounds for the plates but was unable to locate them. Smith said he did not need their physical presence to create the transcription〔; .〕 and that they were hidden in a nearby woods.〔; .〕
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