Caractors Document
The Community of Christ possesses the handwritten slip of paper known as the Anthon Transcript. David Whitmer, who once owned the document, stated that it was this slip of paper that Martin Harris showed to Charles Anthon, as noted above. Both Mormon apologists and critics, however, claim that it is not certain that the document is the original, since Anthon had mentioned that the characters on the slip he saw were arranged in vertical columns and ended in a "rude delineation of a circle divided into various compartments, decked with various strange marks, and evidently copied after the Aztec calendar given by Humboldt," (1834) or "a rude representation of the Mexican zodiac" (1841). The symbols on the document were published twice in 1844, after Joseph Smith's death, as characters that had been copied from the gold plates, one of them in the December 21 issue of The Prophet.
The document is portrayed in the 2004 film The Work and the Glory.
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