Questions About Joseph Smith: Education, Leadership, Wealth, and Influence
Joseph Smith’s Literacy and the Growth of His Intellectual World Joseph Smith’s early life was marked by limited formal schooling. Neighbors and contemporaries such as Jonathan Hadley described him in 1829 as “very illiterate,” and the earliest surviving letters in Joseph’s own handwriting reveal inconsistent spelling and grammar—even misspelling his brother Hyrum’s name. Yet this … Read more