Editing Book of Mormon (section)

===Printer's manuscript ownership history===
In the late-19th century the extant portion of the printer's manuscript remained with the family of [[David Whitmer]], who had been a principal founder of the [[Latter Day Saints]] and who, by the 1870s, led the [[Church of Christ (Whitmerite)]]. During the 1870s, according to the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'', the LDS Church unsuccessfully attempted to buy it from Whitmer for a record price. Church president [[Joseph F. Smith]] refuted this assertion in a 1901 letter, believing such a manuscript "possesses no value whatever."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/preserving-history-latter-day-saints/3-history-all-important-things-dc-693-john-whitmers |title=3. "A History of All the Important Things" (D&C 69:3): John Whitmer's Record of Church History &#124; Religious Studies Center |publisher=Rsc.byu.edu |access-date=2017-09-25 |archive-date=September 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926042424/https://rsc.byu.edu/archived/preserving-history-latter-day-saints/3-history-all-important-things-dc-693-john-whitmers |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1895, Whitmer's grandson George Schweich inherited the manuscript. By 1903, Schweich had mortgaged the manuscript for $1,800 and, needing to raise at least that sum, sold a collection including 72 percent of the book of the original printer's manuscript ([[John Whitmer]]'s manuscript history, parts of Joseph Smith's translation of the [[Bible]], manuscript copies of several revelations, and [[Anthon transcript|a piece of paper]] containing copied Book of Mormon characters) to the RLDS Church (now the Community of Christ) for $2,450, with $2,300 of this amount for the printer's manuscript.

In 2015, this remaining portion was published by the [[Church Historian's Press]] in its ''[[Joseph Smith Papers]]'' series, in Volume Three of "Revelations and Translations"; and, in 2017, the church bought the printer's manuscript for {{currency|35000000|USD}}.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mims |first=Bob |date=September 21, 2017 |title=Historian: At $35M, Original Printer's Manuscript of Book of Mormon a Bargain |work=[[Salt Lake Tribune]] |url=http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/09/22/historian-at-35m-original-printers-manuscript-of-book-of-mormon-a-bargain/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709221911/http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/09/22/historian-at-35m-original-printers-manuscript-of-book-of-mormon-a-bargain/ |archive-date=July 9, 2022}}</ref>