I was standing very near the corner stone [of the Nauvoo Temple] when
Joseph Smith came up with the manuscript of the Book of Mormon and said that he
wanted to put that in there, as he had had trouble enough with it. It was the
size of common foolscap paper and about three inches thick. There was also
deposited the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, a five cent piece, a 10c, a 25c
and a 50c and a one dollar, all American coin. A close fitting over of stone
had been prepared and was laid in cement and the wall built over it. (Warren
Foote, Journal, October 2, 1841, in Saints, Stories, and Sources: Warren
Foote, vol. 1 [Aspen Grove Books, 2016], 61)
