translated them again and the two manuscripts did not match because of their alterations." Instead, the material would be replaced with Nephi's abridgment of his father's record. However, according to Lucy Mack Smith, Lucy Harris did give Joseph 28 dollars to go towards the translation and publication of the plates, claiming that she had received a vision testifying of their truth, as well as being shown the physical plates. Later life In part due to the continued disagreement with her husband over the legitimacy of Smith and the golden plates, and because of the loss of his farm – which he had mortgaged to publish the Book of Mormon – in 1830 Harris and her husband separated. Lucy Harris was described by her detractor Lucy Mack Smith as a woman of "irascible temper," but Harris may also have abused her. Lucy Harris also suggested that her husband may have committed adultery with a neighboring "Mrs. Haggart." She died in 1836 at the age of 44. Allegations by the Smith family According to the journal of Smith's mother, Lucy Mack Smith, Harris expressed once that she "missed her husband," but after Smith informed Harris that he left to accompany Joseph Smith, and to take the Egyptian characters to the East to "call on all the professed linguists... in giving a translation of the characters," Harris "became highly exasperated, and charged me with planning the whole affair." After contending briefly with Harris, Smith reported, "'Now, stop' said I, 'do you know that we have never asked you for money or property? and that if we had been disposed to take advantage of your liberality, could we not have obtained at least, two hundred and seventy dollars of your cash?' She answered in the affirmative, notwithstanding she went home in a great rage, determined to have satisfaction for the treatment which she had received. In a short time Harris returned, and his wife's anger kindled afresh at his presence, insomuch that she prepared a separate bed and room for him, which room she refused to enter." In a later report by Smith, she described Harris's reaction upon her discovery of damage to a chest of drawers, a consequence of Martin's decision to pick the lock (when he was unable to locate the key) to show the manuscript pages to a friend: "When Mrs. Harris returned, and discovered the marred state of her [chest