While reading Elder Talmage's personal journals as part of a separate research project, I came across the following few entries he had written in 1921. The "Book of Mormon committee" he references is a Church committee established in 1919 for the purpose of preparing a new edition of the Book of Mormon, which at the time of these "hearings" had just been completed (right before the first "hearing," Elder Talmage received the first shipment of the new "Missionary Edition" of the Book of Mormon).