The form in which the revelation on tithing has been printed in the Book of Commandments and the Doctrine and Covenants. Also includes a letter to Carlyle Lambert.

Comparisons between these revelations as they were originally published in the Book of Commandments and later in the Doctrine and Covenants.

Changes made in the text of the early revelation concerning the divining rod as published in official editions of the Doctrine and Covenants from 1876. Also includes letters to Carlyle Lambert, as well as statements by A. C. Lambert on his feelings and motivations.

"The history of the vast changes that have been made in the prefatory notes to the revelations included in the from the very first editions to the basic 1921 official edition and to the abridged edition of 1930 constitutes a major study in the latter-day saint revelations, and a most significant one."

Photostats of an article, "Explanation of Substituted Names in the Covenants," taken from the , Volume 2, Number 3.

Contains lists of specific places that occur in Joseph Smith's revelations, exclusive of the Bible, including names of places, proper names, and nouns from the Book of Mormon. It also lists hidden or coded proper names of persons, excluding Old Testament persons, titles, and places (original manuscript and mimeograph copy).

Includes letters concerning a search for a 1920 German edition of the Doctrine and Covenants; notes on revelations given to L.D.S. Church presidents, apostles, prophets, seers, and revelators, but never published. There are photocopies of John Taylor's revelations included in German (1893), Danish (1900), and Swedish (1928) editions of the Doctrine and Covenants. Also includes the following pamphlets: .

Contains original 35 mm. negatives and prints of this book.

Contains the following divisions: Original Revelations, Many Early Revelations Were Not Published, Many Committees Worked on the Revelations, Creation of a "Sacred Treasury," and Major Changes Have Been Made in the Revelations and Commandments of God Given by Joseph Smith, Jr.

A discussion of various facets of revelations as recorded by the Mormons. There are also letters about rare books coming up for auction; data concerning en tries in the Book of Commandments; and Fawn Brodie's "Polygamy Shocks the Mormons," printed in , April, 1946. Two letters, one to Dale Morgan and another to "Ariel," are included.

Includes the primary handwritten work plus mimeograph studies by Lambert titled (concerns the Divining Rod and Consecration of Property).

Copies of handwritten material and other material included at the end of the research portion of the original manuscript . . ., and extra copies of the reorganized text of the latter pages of "conclusions" in the work .... (See Bk 1 above)

Additional Names for God produced by Joseph Smith, Jr., in his "Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language." A. C. Lambert meant for this study to follow page 364 in .... (See Bk 1 above)

Includes studies on the history of the Creative Word of Power within Babylonian Legends; Making the Name to Flourish; etc. There is also a history on the Name of the Creator.

One portion of the larger work, .

Bound edition of personally prepared index.

Master plates from which the volume was printed.

Unbound.

An analysis of the characters of the Book of Mormon plates, drawn by Joseph Smith. A companion volume is fBk 2.

Outline for studying and analyzing the Book of Mormon on socio-economic, religious, historical, and artistic levels. (3 copies, plates, correspondence, and questions for the outline.)

A. C. Lambert examined the card file, carefully noting all information on the Book of Commandments and Doctrine and Covenants and then listed all editions which he personally examined. The notes would help in identifying various editions of these books. A Union List of the various editions is also included.

This notebook, largely handwritten, contains personal notes by A. C. Lambert on his activities and experiences while researching the Book of Commandments, and is, in part, a summation of his personal feelings and directions of his investigations on this topic. The notebook contains detailed material on the Book of Commandments and the Doctrine and Covenants, giving identification for early editions of these books as well as their history. There is also material from the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on the "Literature of Controversy," and letters of the importance in L.D.S. Church work.

Includes sections entitled: Is It Worth It? Producing the Book of Commandments; Things That Had to be Done; Various Title Pages. There is also material on the printing of the Book of Commandments, destruction of the printing press, hand presses, and typographical style of the book. There are a few notes on why the United Order failed.

Contains notes on A Book of Commandments, 1833, and the 1835 edition of the Doctrine and Covenants, as well as photostats of various issues of the Morning and Evening Star. There is also some material on the plurality of wives.

Contains a history of this vision which later became Section 76 in the Doctrine and Covenants, as well as detailed notations on textual changes from the originally printed text.

Contains a meticulous comparison of the 1844, 1845, 1846, Nauvoo, Illinois, editions of the Doctrine and Covenants, as well as the 1845 and 1852 Liverpool, England, editions of the same book. A. C. Lamber notes: "I did the exhaustive detail study of these several printed texts in order (1) to identify a particular copy of the book for which its original title page was missing, and about the identity of which book there was some question,--which one of the three Nauvoo editions was it, really?"

How the small book of selections from the full book of Doctrine and Covenants was made in 1930 to constitute ; and notes on changes that have been made at various times in the revelations.

Notes on the chronology of the Doctrine and Covenants, including location of libraries owning copies of the various editions.

Notes, manuscript, galley, and mimeograph and published copies.

Mimeograph copy and handwritten notes titled "Re-Discovery of Hand-Written Copies of Original Revelations."

A study of the use of figurative and symbolical language used by Joseph Smith in the revelations printed in the Doctrine and Covenants.

A descriptive list of these two books as contained in Joseph Sabin's . (Additional handwritten material than in Book 2 following.)

A carbon copy of the typed list of these two books as found in Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Other Source Material on A Book of Commandments.

Notes, collections, negatives, and analyses of The Book of Abraham. This is a companion volume to fBk 1.

Notes and collections of the facsimiles of The Book of Abraham. A detailed study, including A. C. Lambert's card file, converted to sheet form, on the sources for his studies. Also included is printed material, both Mormon and non-Mormon, on the facsimiles.

The Bier Scene: Facsimile No. 1, Isis-Osiris, KA and BA. Collection of materials published by various authors on this facsimile.

Original Manuscript Translation of the Book of Abraham, by Joseph Smith, Jr. A. C. Lambert states: "Here is a valid photographic reproduction, two sets, of the original manuscript translation that Joseph Smith himself and his immediate scribes made of the 'book of Abraham' and published in The Times and Seasons and then in The Pearl of Great Price .... I have followed the Joseph Smith papyri and the Pearl of Great Price since 1912. Some of my conclusions are written into these several notebooks in several places."

Joseph Smith's Grammar and Alphabet of the Egyptian Language That Went to B. Y. U. in 1935, and was Analyzed Secretly There. This original was owned by Grant Howard, and was xeroxed by A. C. Lambert.

Consisting of photomechanical reprints of Joseph Smith, Jr., as a Translator, by F.S. Spalding, D.D., and Joseph Smith as an Interpreter and Translator of Egyptian, by Samuel A. B. Mercer, Ph.D. (Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Company, N.D.).

Materials on the Joseph Smith Papyri recovered from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; "The Book of Abraham--A Product of the Nineteenth Century, A Critical Study," by Wesley N. Jones; xerox copy of a letter by Oliver Cowdery; and issues of The Salt Lake City Messenger, printed by Modern Microfilm Company.

Handwritten notes on the questions: Which Papyri Did Joseph Smith Have? Which Fragments of Papyri Were Recovered from the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Photographs of the papyri with discussions concerning them.

The "Translated" Book of Abraham and The Egyptian Characters That Precede Each of Its Paragraphs, The Numbers of Words in the Paragraphs, and Some Clippings on Ancient Egypt. "My Own Notes and Analyses on the Original 'Translation' of the Book of Abraham by Joseph Smith, Jr.," by A. C. Lambert.

Photographs of Portions of the Recovered Joseph Papyri. A. C. Lambert notes: "Some Photographs of Parts of the Recovered Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri that I made before either University or church photographers worked on them. Dec. 12, 1967."

Joseph Smith's "Eye of Ra," A Preliminary Survey and First Translation of Facsimile No. 2 in the Book of Abraham, by Dee Jay Nelson (Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Company, 1968).

The Joseph Smith Papyri, Part 2, Additional Translations and a Supplimental [sic] Survey of the Ta-shert-Min, Hor and Amen-Terp Papyri, by Dee Jay Nelson (Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Company, 1968).

"The Joseph Smith Egyptian Papyri--Translations and Interpretations [entire section with individual articles as follows]": "A Summary Report," by John A. Wilson; "The Joseph Smith Papyri: A Preliminary Report," by Richard A. Parker; "A Tentative Approach to the Book of Abraham," by Richard P. Howard; "The Source of the Book of Abraham Identified," by Grant S. Heward and Jerald Tanner; "The Book of Breathings (Fragment 1, the 'sensen' Text, with Restorations from Louvre Papyrus 3284)," translated by Richard A. Parker; and "Phase One," by Hugh Nibley, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume III (Summer, 1968).

"The Breathing Permit of Hor, A Translation of the Apparent Source of the Book of Abraham," by Klaus Baer, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Volume III (Autumn, 1968).

"Egyptian Papyri Rediscovered," by Jay M. Todd, The Improvement Era, Volume 71 (January, 1968).

"New Light on Joseph Smith's Egyptian Papyri, Additional Fragment Disclosed," by Doyle L. Green, and "Background of the Church Historian's Fragment," by Jay M. Todd, The Improvement Era, Volume 71 (February, 1968).

Vellum master plates on A. C. Lambert's study. The study contains a background of the "Epistole," based on economic problems and Missouri troubles. Also contains notes on Emma Smith, and a discussion of polygamy, records, and revelations. At the end of the book are vellum plates on early notes for the "Epistole."

Printed copy of Bk 1 above, without the early notes section.

Copies of the text and analyses of the text as printed in the Deseret News and other places.

Original analyses by A. C. Lambert. The "Epistole" text in Times and Seasons, Millennnial Star, etc.

Includes three volumes. Volume 1: A. C. Lambert notes: "Some exposes that exist in printed form have not yet been collected and included in this 'book,' but all that are known to this notemaker and to one or two reliable students of this field are listed here, by date, if the date has been determined, and by the place in which a copy exists if it has not already been obtained and included here." Volume 2: A. C. Lambert notes: "In this volume two of the published exposes are items collected after the large book of exposes had become filled and unwieldy to handle. In this volume two are entries of existing exposes still not collected and included; the work and expense, of collecting copies of the published exposes is virtually endless." Volume 3: A Supplement to the Published Exposes of the Mormon Temple Ceremonies of Endowment.

Photostatic copy and typed version of Chapter 17, an expose of the Mormon Temple ceremonies.

Detailed analyses of the various editions of the pamphlets on the Mormon Temple ceremonies, published in the Van Dusen pamphlets between 1847 and 1938, and the Goodwin pamphlets, published between 1921 and 1938. Methods for identifying the various editions of the pamphlets are included.

Correspondence concerning A. C. Lambert's search for the Van Dusen pamphlets.

Notes, correspondence, etc., concerning the expose and the Reed Smoot Senate Hearings concerned with polygamy, as well as photocopies of the expose and a copy of U.S. Senate, , 59th Congress, 1st Session, Document 486.

Photocopy.

Includes Temple Marks; Degrees; Second Anointings; Celestial Masonry; Human Skeletons; The Searching Knife; The Devil's Apron; and The Oath of Vengeance.

A discussion of oaths administered in the Mormon Temple ceremonies, as well as a manuscript by A. C. Lambert entitled "Academic Freedom at Brigham Young University and the Temple Oaths," and a preliminary sketch titled "The Ethical Problem in the Mormon Temple Ceremonies."

Notebook on the similarity of Mormon Temple ceremonies and Masonic rituals. There are also some materials on the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

A comparison of Mormon and Masonic symbols and rituals. Most of the material is handwritten. There are some hand-drawn illustrations, pictures, etc.

A set of notes on a variety of topics, including comparisons of Mormonism, Masonry, and other secret societies; duplicate notes on the Serpent; legends concerning Christ's return to Egypt as the age of twenty-five; details of Masonic symbols found elsewhere in the books of notes; history of ancient religions concerned with mysteries; and legends concerning the "Thirty Pieces of Silver." Much of this material is located in other notebooks.

Contains catalogues of books on the occult, secret societies, Masonry, etc.

Divisions in the book include Mormonism and Masonry, A Tabooed Subject; The Traditional Mormon Story about Mormons and Masons; Why Did the Mormons Go Into Free masonry in Illinois; For What Things Were the Mormon Lodges of Freemasonry Criticized; Other Major Criticisms that were Made Against the Mormons; Joseph Smith at Carthage Jail; A Summary Chronology of Some Major Events; Concerning the Origins of the Temple Mysteries; What Is To Be Said of Joseph Smith's Anti-Masonry of 1830; The Significant Language of Symbols; Some Illustrative Symbols That are Common, More or Less in the Mystery Systems that Include the Mormons and the Masons; The Particular Symbol of the Apron; Some Common Elements in Masonry and Mormonism; Some Concepts that Appear to be Common, More or Less, To Many Mystery Systems, Including Those of the Mormons and the Masons; Some Pros and Cons About the Mormon Temple Oaths; Mormon "Blood Atonement"; The Sophistry That the Initiate Takes the Mormon Blood Oaths of His "Own Free Will and Choice"; The University and the Temple; A Conversation with a Mason-Mormon Stake President; The Triangle, Pyramid, and All-Seeing Eye; Illustrations of a Few Primary Symbols--Circle, Square, Triangle, and the All-Seeing Eye of God.

Master plates.

Notes on the Mormon Temple apron and the Masonic apron.

Contains notes on development of Masonry in Nauvoo, including copies of chapters from Kenneth W. Godfrey, "Causes of Mormon Non-Mormon Conflict in Hancock County, Illinois, 1830-1846" (Ph.D. dissertation, Brigham Young University, 1967); Max H. Parkin, (Salt Lake City, 1966), and Francis Michael Darter, "The Origin of the Temple Veil" (lecture, November, 1955). There is also a complete copy of James C. Bilderback, "Masonry and Mormonism, Nauvoo, Illinois, 1841-1847" (Master's thesis, State University of Iowa, 1937).

Contains typed copies of A Bibliography on Masonry in Joseph Fort Newton, , a 1946 printing, as he lists titles, without date and publisher; "Some Sources on Masonry," and "A Note on the Morgan Affair," in Eugen Lennhoff, , trans. by Einar Frame (New York: Oxford University Press, 1934); S. H. Goodwin, P.G.M., (Salt Lake City: Grand Lodge F. and A. M. of Utah, 1925); S. H. Goodwin, P.G.M., (Salt Lake City, 1932).

Material consisting of handwritten notes, excerpts from publication Jack H. Adamson, "The Treasure of the Widow's Son"; (Salt Lake City: Modern Microfilm Company, [1969]); and William J. Whalen, (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Bruce Publishing Company, [1966]). There is a section of about 150 pages containing notes written by A. C. Lambert titled "Some Scattered Notes of 20-30 Years Ago," which contains accounts of encounters, interviews, meetings, etc., with persons in regard to Mormon Temple oaths and covenants.

Correspondence and notes concerning a search for a magician active in the Palmyra region during the time of Joseph Smith, and Joseph Smith's possible influence by this individual--fBk 2 is a companion volume to this notebook.

Excerpts from Arthur E. Waite, The Mysteries of Magic (London, 1897); A. E. Waite, The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry (London: Rider & Co. Pasternoster House, E. C.,1937); and A. E. Waite, The Real History of the Rosicrucians (London: George Redway, 1887).

Notes on the Rosicrucians, Masons, Gnostics, etc.

Includes the following: Blood Atonement, as Taught By the Mormons or Latter-Day Saints, 1850-1858; Ideas Concerning "The Blood" in Religions and in Secret Societies; Human Sacrifice, a Literal Practice, Among the Israelites, and Among Peoples in Early Central America; Blood Rites, Spirits, God, and Human Sacrifice; Secret Societies Among the Christians; Yah weh the God of Blood Sacrifice and Blood Vengeance; Search for the Lost "True Name" of God.

Notes on blood rites, human sacrifice, etc.

Notes on the doctrine of Blood Atonement among the Mormons between 1851 and 1857 as well as material on blood sacrifice, human sacrifice, serpent worship, the devil's finger, etc.

First plates.

Notes on blood rites, secret societies, initiations, name, phallicism, spiritualism, devils, demons, spiritism, circumscision, staff, rod, serpent, etc.

Handwritten manuscript on the Mormon Reformation of the 1850s, and the doctrine of Blood Atonement. Two divisions within the article are "The Cry For Blood Vengeance" and "Blood Vengeance Upon Individuals."

Copy of note cards kept by Stanley S. Ivins on Blood Atonement, Killings, etc.

A. C. Lambert writes: "For a long time I have wished to write something about the Serpent, the oldest and most widespread religious symbol probably in the world, and the character embedded irrevocably and illuminatingly in the Genesis version of the numerous ancient myths of the creation. The hundreds of serpent images and symbols that have been collected over the years in the working sheets of this Notebook are all omitted here. So, too, are nearly all the references. This is a condensed notebook, not an academic treatise."

Copy of Bk 1 above and an article titled "Close-Up/William Haast, Sparring Partner to Cobras, Most Snake-Bitten Man," Life Magazine (June, 1968).

A. C. Lambert writes: "Many hundreds of pages of notes, pictures, clippings, extracts, etc., etc., were assembled at one time over the years antecedent to a book on The Serpent that I once wrote. Most of those voluminous notes and clippings have been thrown out. Some have been given at times to interested students. Some typical ones are retained here as supports for the work on The Serpent."

A. C. Lambert writes: "A Private Notebook Dedicated particularly to better information and the increased freedom of children." Titled "To Hell With The Devil," handwritten manuscript, copies of drawings and pictures of the devil, and collected material on the devil.

The Three Facsimiles From The Book of Abraham as they have been published at various times since 1842. Negatives made and photographs assembled by A. C. Lambert. Companion volume to Bk 1, Bx 13.

The "Caractors" of the Book of Mormon From Which the Book of Mormon was Written and the Source of Those "Caractors" in Books of Magic. Companion volume to Bk 1, Bx 5 and Bk 2, Bx 31.

Original Chart Prepared by A. C. Lambert titled Published Editions of the Book of Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1950

Personal copy of a report prepared by A. C. Lambert while chairman of the Building Committee of Los Angeles State College, 1963 (contains photographs).

Same as Bk 1 above, except does not contain photographs (2 copies bound together).

This is a personal notebook of interviews, telephone conversations, and written notes concerning the Utah School Study Committee. A. C. Lambert notes: "This volume of sheets is a running notebook or semi-office file that I made as the somewhat hectic and typically confused work of the Utah School Study Committee went forward. It is raw and original . . . ."