Smith appears to have been intent on keeping his part of the bargin, as there are many notes penned in the margins of the papyri by his scribes W. W. Phelps and Oliver Cowdery. [ Warren Parish was also later   employed as a scribe] These notes are what were eventually compiled and became known as the "Egyptain Alphebet and Grammer" document or "Kirtland Egyptain Papers".

Smith claimed that the material contained in the scrolls was encoded, and that the true meanings of the ideograms contained therein could be read on different "levels" or "degrees of understanding".  Sampson claims this is refering to Kabbalah.

After the Prophet's murder, Brigham Young, the new leader of the Mormon church, took his congregation west to the Salt Lake Valley in Utah.  Smith's wife, Emma, and his children did not imagrate west with Brigham.  They retained possesion of both the mummies and the scrolls.

Eventually, the Smith family sold their collection to the Chicago Musuem, where it was  assumed to have been destroyed in the great Chicago fire of 1871. However,  in 1966, Dr. Aziz S. Atiya, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies, accidently discovered 22 seperate fragments of the origional papyri  in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.  Through special arrangment, these fragments were acquired by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and are now located at Brigham Young University.

Robert C. Fillerup, has taken these scribe's notes, digitized and organized them alphebetically, according to Joseph's "Five levels" of understanding...