Bro. Ebenezer Robinson called on us Tuesday, the 16th of January; and
after narrating some experiences had while the Saints were being driven out
from Missouri, and the sickness and privations which followed, said:
. . .
Your father and I sat down; we took the Palmyra edition and the
Kirtland edition, of which latter I helped the set the type, (those were the
only two editions that had been printed then), and we compared them, reading
the book entirely through, and there is only just one sentence in that book
that is not in the other, in what is called the Nauvoo edition, and all the
editions since. That is the only one that is not in the Palmyra edition. It is
in Nephi's second book I believe. He put a few words there in parenthesis, when
he refers to the waters of Judah or the waters of Baptism, he put a few words
there in parenthesis. That is the only thing, excepting some little
ungrammatical expressions that were altered. (Joseph Smith III, “A
Historical Reminiscence,” The Saints' Herald 30, no. 10 [March 10,
1883]: 146)
