“It has remained for a later generation of believers to deny the stories altogether. Joseph himself never denied that he had been a seer in peepstones before establishing himself as a prophet of God.” 

Dale L. Morgan/Bagley Footnote, Dale Morgan on the Mormons: Collected Works, Part 2, 1949-1970 (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013), 80; fn 25.