“I wonder what really goes on in the minds of Church leadership who know of the data concerning the Book of Abraham, the new data on the First Vision, etc … It would tend to devastate the Church if a top leader were to announce the facts.”

^{Thomas Ferguson letter to John W. Fitzgerald, John Fitzgerald Collection, Special Collections (Logan, UT: Milton R. Merrill Library, Utah State University, 6 March 1976). Unverified.}