Stanley B. Kimball says the statement found in "History of the Church" could have been an altered version of William Clayton's statement, placing Smith in the first person. Diane Wirth, writing in "Review of Books on the Book of Mormon" (2:210), states: "A first-person narrative was apparently a common practice of this time period when a biographical work was being compiled. Since such words were never penned by the Prophet, they cannot be uncritically accepted as his words or his opinion".