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Some people are still of the opinion that Joseph Smith had nothing to do with the 1841-43 Times and Seasons articles that reference the 1841 book by John Lloyd Stephens, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. We draw your attention to the June 25, 1842, journal entry of Joseph Smith:

"Messrs. Stephens and Catherwood have succeeded in collecting in the interior of America a large amount of relics of the Nephites, or the ancient inhabitants of America treated of in the Book of Mormon, which relics have recently been landed in New York."
(History of the Church, 5:44)

This is unequivocally Joseph Smith speaking-not John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, or anyone else. And even if Joseph were in hiding when he composed the journal entry, the entry is his as a reflection of his 1842 thinking about the New World setting of the Book of Mormon.