Salt Lake City, Utah Smith Research Associates 1987 This edition is #83 of 500 LIMITED EDITION Hard cover Good. No dust jacket. Clean unmarked pages. Silk ribbon marker 504 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Published for the first time in their entirety, the personal diaries and journals of Mormon founder Joseph Smith (1805-1844) provide an unequaled view of this controversial American religious leader. Previous compilations have drawn from careful selected and sometimes rewritten passages of Smith s diaries and journals. In the present, unexpurgated edition, Smith emerges as believable and human, willing to allow both decedents and followers a complete look at his beliefs and personality