Original sentence: Smithwho said he had translated the Book of Mormon from golden plates that had been inscribed with "reformed Egyptian" texttook an immediate interest in the papyri and soon offered Chandler a preliminary translation of the scrolls
Edited sentence: Smithwho had claimed to have translated the Book of Mormon from golden plates that had been inscribed with "reformed Egyptian" texttook an immediate interest in the papyri and soon offered Chandler a preliminary translation of the scrolls