190 years ago today - 17 February 1836 - Wednesday

Wednesday the 17th attend[ed] the school and read and translated with my class as usual, and my soul delights in reading the word of the Lord in the original, and I am determined to persue the study of languages untill I shall become master of them, if I am permitted to live long enough, at any rate so long as I do live I am determined to make this my object, and with the blessing of God I shall succe[e]d to my sattisfaction,- this evening Elder Joseph Coe called to make some arangements about the Egyptian records and the mummies, he proposes to hire a room at J[ohn] Johnson s Inn and exibit them there from day to day at certain hours, that some benefit may be derived from them- I complied with his request, and only observed that they must be managed with prudence and care especially the manuscripts [[Seven months earlier, Coe loaned eight hundred dollars to help purchase the mummies and papyri, expecting to be quickly repaid from the sales of JS's translation of the papyri. With
the translation still unpublished, Coe desired to recoup his losses by exhibiting the mummies and papyri.]]

[Joseph Smith, "Sketch Book for the use of Joseph Smith, jr.," Journal, Sept. 1835-Apr. 1836]