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Welcome to this clean-cut episode of the Naked Mormonism podcast, the Serial Mormon History podcast. Today is Thursday, August 18th, 2016. My name is Bryce Blankanagle,

and thank you for joining me. Today's episode is part two of the Mark

Hoffman's story. If you miss part one and want to hear what happened previous to this episode,

might I suggest going back and listening to the first part? If you're all caught up or you don't

mind picking up in the middle of a story, then this is the episode for you. Let's get started.

In December of 1983, Mark Hoffman sold the salamander letter to two men named Stephen Christensen and Gary Sheets.

Once it was publicized that the letter existed and the church was attempting to buy it for the purposes of suppressing its contents, the price was set at $40,000. Now, those

are $1985. That's significantly more. That's much closer to $100,000 now. Christensen was the

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