# Letter To My Wife: Examining the Evidence

> Source-by-source examination of claims and church history.


## Posts

- [Did Joseph Smith Change His First Vision Story?](https://lettertomywife.com/first-vision-accounts-differences/): Compare Joseph Smith's four First Vision accounts, examine their real differences, and see whether the evidence supports claims that his story changed.
- [Did Joseph Smith Translate the Fake Kinderhook Plates?](https://lettertomywife.com/did-joseph-smith-translate-the-fake-kinderhook-plates/): A demonstration episode examining the Kinderhook Plates, historical claims, evidence, conclusions, transcript, and sources.
- [Reading Letter for My Wife Chapter by Chapter](https://lettertomywife.com/reading-letter-for-my-wife-chapter-by-chapter/): A chapter-based examination is easier to follow when each claim stays attached to its context. The goal is not to race through the argument, but to make each step inspectable.
- [Why the Transcript Belongs Beside the Audio](https://lettertomywife.com/why-the-transcript-belongs-beside-the-audio/): Listening carries an argument from beginning to end; reading makes its wording and references easier to revisit. Keeping both together helps the episode remain checkable.
- [A Citation Is a Trail, Not a Verdict](https://lettertomywife.com/a-citation-is-a-trail-not-a-verdict/): A footnote can point toward evidence without settling what that evidence means. Here’s how to follow a source from a claim back to its context.
- [Introduction 01: What is Letter For My Wife? Who is Thomas Faulk](https://lettertomywife.com/what-is-letter-for-my-wife/): This planned episode examines How to Evaluate Historical Claims in Letter For My Wife. The completed investigation will review the claim, historical sources, and alternative explanations.

## Pages

- [Contact](https://lettertomywife.com/contact/): Questions about a citation, a document you can share, or a correction to an episode are welcome.
- [About](https://lettertomywife.com/about/): Alma the Defender is the pen name of an independent researcher who writes and records the Letter To My Wife podcast.
- [Start Here](https://lettertomywife.com/start-here/): This library tests the claims in Thomas Faulk’s “Letter For My Wife” against original documents.
- [Episodes](https://lettertomywife.com/episodes/): Each entry pairs an audio player with a full verbatim transcript and the historical citations behind its claims.
- [Browse Chapters](https://lettertomywife.com/browse-chapters/): Explore the historical accusations discussed in Thomas Faulk’s Letter For My Wife chapter by chapter.
- [Home](https://lettertomywife.com/): Twenty-five chapters test the claims about Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, and LDS Church history against primary records, with each numbered episode paired with full audio, transcript, and citations.


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