Romantic friendships were also popular in the U. S. Enigmatic poet Emily Dickinson wrote over 300 letters and poems to Susan Gilbert, who later became her sister-in-law, and engaged in another romantic correspondence with Kate Scott Anthon.

According to Harris, Anthon wrote Harris a letter of authenticity declaring the fragment to contain true Egyptian characters.

Anthon later claimed that he recognized a hoax and never wrote a letter of authenticity.

The Anthon Transcript ( often identified with the " Caractors " document ) is a small piece of paper on which Joseph Smith, Jr. wrote several lines of characters.

Smith wrote that Anthon " stated that the translation was correct, more so than any he had before seen translated from the Egyptian.

Smith said that when this sample was presented by Smith's colleague Martin Harris to Columbia College professor Charles Anthon, a noted classical scholar, that Anthon had attested to the characters ' authenticity in writing but had then ripped up his certification after hearing that the plates had been revealed by an angel.

Anthon was home to Charles Osborne, who had the hiccups continuously for 68 years, and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records.

The American classical scholar Charles Anthon believed this legend may have been rooted in history ( although exaggerated ), if the dwarf or pygmy tribe were interpreted as being a smaller aboriginal tribe of Britain the people on Thule had encountered.

: Your letter of yesterday is received & I hasten to answer as fully as I can -- Joseph Smith Jr first come to my notice in the year 1824 in the summer of that year I contracted with his father to build a fence on my property in the corse of that work I approach Joseph & ask how it is in a half day you put up what requires your father & 2 brothers a full day working together he says I have not been with out assistance but can not say more only you better find out the next day I take the older Smith by the arm & he says Joseph can see any thing he wishes by looking at a stone Joseph often sees Spirits here with great kettles of coin money it was Spirits who brought up rock because Joseph made no attempt on their money I latter dream I converse with spirits which let me count their money when I awake I have in my hand a dollar coin which I take for a sign Joseph describes what I seen in every particular says he the spirits are grieved so I through back the dollar in the fall of the year 1827 I hear Joseph found a gold bible I take Joseph aside & he says it is true I found it 4 years ago with my stone but only just got it because of the enchantment the old spirit come to me 3 times in the same dream & says dig up the gold but when I take it up the next morning the spirit transfigured himself from a white salamander in the bottom of the hole & struck me 3 times & held the treasure & would not let me have it because I lay it down to cover over the hole when the spirit says do not lay it down Joseph says when can I have it the spirit says one year from to day if you obay me look to the stone after a few days he looks the spirit says bring your brother Alvin Joseph says he is dead shall I bring what remains but the spirit is gone Joseph goes to get the gold bible but the spirit says you did not bring your brother you can not have it look to the stone Joseph looks but can not see who to bring the spirit says I tricked you again look to the stone Joseph looks & sees his wife on the 22d day of Sept 1827 they get the gold bible -- I give Joseph $ 50 to move him down to Pa Joseph says when you visit me I will give you a sign he gives me some hiroglyphics I take then to Utica Albany & New York in the last place Dr Mitchel gives me an introduction to Professor Anthon says he they are short hand Egyption the same what was used in ancient times bring me the old book & I will translate says I it is made of precious gold & is sealed from view says he I can not read a sealed book -- Joseph found some giant silver specticles with the plates he puts them in an old hat & in the darkness reads the words & in this way it is all translated & written down -- about the middle of June 1829 Joseph takes me together with Oliver Cowdery & David Whitmer to have a view of the plates our names are appended to the book of Mormon which I had printed with my own money -- space and time both prevent me from writing more at present if there is any thing further you wish to inquire I shall attend to it

The document seemed to be the transcript that Joseph Smith's scribe Martin Harris had presented to Charles Anthon, a Columbia classics professor, in 1828.

When informed that an angel of God had revealed the characters to Joseph Smith, Anthon tore up the authentication.

On March 10, 1921, he was set apart as First Counselor in the same presidency to replace President Anthon H. Lund who had died eight days earlier.

" Anthon gave a second account in 1841 that contradicted his 1834 account as to whether or not he gave Harris a written opinion about the document: " requested me to give him my opinion in writing about the paper which he had shown to me.

Both Mormon apologists and critics, however, claim that it is not certain that the document is the original, since Anthon had mentioned that the characters on the slip he saw were arranged in vertical columns and ended in a " rude delineation of a circle divided into various compartments, decked with various strange marks, and evidently copied after the Aztec calendar given by Humboldt ," ( 1834 ) or " a rude representation of the Mexican zodiac " ( 1841 ).

They had a succession of drummers starting with Bruce Anthon ( ex-The Survivors ).

On Harris's return, Lucy refused to share his bed, and she had a suitor of her daughter surreptitiously copy the characters on the Anthon transcript that Smith had given to Harris.

Photograph of what is believed to be the 1830 document known as the " Anthon Transcript "

Photograph of what is commonly believed to be the 1828 document known as the Anthon Transcript

The " Anthon Transcript " ( also known as the " Caractors " document ) is a small piece of paper on which Joseph Smith, Jr. is said to have transcribed reformed Egyptian characters from the golden plates ( the ancient record from which Smith claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon ).

During the early 1980s, forger Mark Hofmann sold alleged Mormon materials to Mormon investors and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including a sample of reformed Egyptian characters probably copied from the Caractors Transcript in a manner intended to make them more closely agree with the description given by Anthon.

* Summary of skeptical material about the Anthon Transcript from Utah Lighthouse Ministries.

However according to Charles Anthon the primitive root of the name is probably of Persian origin from arta *, art *, arte *,... all meaning great, excellent, holy ,... thus Artemis ( i. e. Diana ) " becomes identical with the great mother of Nature, even as she was worshipped at Ephesus ".

The LDS Church announced the discovery of the Anthon Transcript in April and purchased it from Hofmann for more than USD $ 20, 000.

Because Harris desired assurance of the work's authenticity, Smith transcribed characters from the plates to a piece of paper, perhaps the one now known as the Anthon transcript.

* Charles Anthon, A System of Latin Prosody and Metre, from the Best Authorities, Ancient and Modern, Harper and Brothers ( 1842 ). online

* A school dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities, abridged from the larger dictionary by William Smith, LL. D., with corrections and improvements by Charles Anthon, LL. D.

* Charles Anthon, A Manual of Greek Literature from the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era ( 1853 ).

* A copious and critical English-Latin lexicon, founded on the German-Latin dictionary of Dr. by Joseph Esmond Riddle and Thomas Kerchever Arnold, first American edition, carefully revised, and containing a copious dictionary of proper names from the best sources, by Charles Anthon, LL. D., New York: Harper and Brothers ( 1856 ).

* A Latin-English and English-Latin dictionary: for the use of schools, chiefly from the lexicons of Freund, Georges, and Kaltschmidt, by Charles Anthon ( 1859 ).

* Charles Anthon, The Germania and Agricola, and also Selections from the Annals, of Tacitus, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory, ( 1847 ).

* Charles Anthon, The Satires of Juvenal and Persius with English Notes Critical and Explanatory, from the Best Commentators, Harper and Brothers, ( 1857 ).

" According to the same account, Anthon provided Harris with a certificate as to the veracity of the characters but tore it up after learning the characters were copied from a book said to have been delivered by an angel.

In 1834, Anthon stated that, " The whole story about my having pronounced the Mormonite inscription to be ' reformed Egyptian hieroglyphics ' is perfectly false ... I soon came to the conclusion that it was all a trick, perhaps a hoax ... requested an opinion from me in writing, which of course I declined giving.

* Jörg Breu Sketchbook ( Cod. I. 6. 2 °. 4 ), Augsburg city archive, Schätze B2 Reichsstadt, 1553, 110 folia, illustrated by Heinrich Vogtherr, based material acquired from Anthon Rast of Nürnberg ( d. 1549 ).

He received a degree for flute from Geneva Conservatoire and also studied piano, orchestration ( with Rogier van Otterloo ) and organ ( with Anthon van der Horst ).

* Gilbert Highet, Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature from 1950-72 at Columbia University, New York

Old Main ( Utah State University ) | Old Main, the agricultural college's now-iconic first building, now houses administrative offices, the department of Computer Science, and much of the College of HaSSMeanwhile, after visiting a few rural agricultural schools in his native Denmark, Anthon H. Lund of the Utah Territorial Legislature decided that there existed in Utah a need for such a school fusing the highest in scientific and academic research with agriculture, the way of life for the vast majority of locals.

Ciceronis De Officiis libri tres, with marginal analysis and an English commentary, first American edition corrected and enlarged by Charles Anthon, ( 1859 ).

He prophesies the conversation that Martin Harris has with Professor Charles Anthon.

Harris took this document to New York City, where he met with Charles Anthon, a professor of linguistics at Columbia College.

Although Harris and Anthon later told conflicting versions about their encounter, the episode apparently satisfied Harris's doubts about the authenticity of the Golden Plates.

Charles Anthon is famous among members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( also known as Mormons ) because of his interactions with Martin Harris concerning a fragment of Joseph Smith's translation of the Book of Mormon.

Some adherents to the Book of Mormon claim that Anthon attested to the characters ' authenticity in writing to Martin Harris but then ripped up his certification after hearing the story of Joseph Smith and the plates.

as Anthon said to Harris, " I cannot read a sealed book.

David Whitmer, who once owned the document, stated that it was this slip of paper that Martin Harris showed to Charles Anthon, as noted above.