Letter From Charles Anthon
See also: Anthon TranscriptHowe includes a letter received from Charles Anthon regarding a visit made to him by Martin Harris. Harris showed him a copy of characters reported to have been copied from the gold plates. Anthon states that he initially viewed this as a hoax, and later decided that it was a scheme to cheat Harris out of his money. Anthon described the characters as "evidently copied after the Mexican Calender given by Humboldt, but copied in such a way as not to betray the source whence it was derived." Anthon requested that his letter be published immediately in case his name was mentioned again "by these wretched fanatics" (Anthon 1834, p. 272).
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