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Dale R. Broadhurst papers, 1800-2000

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Broadhurst, Dale R.
Title
Dale R. Broadhurst papers
Dates
1800-2000 (inclusive)
Quantity
11.75 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 0913
Summary
The Dale R. Broadhurst papers (1800-2000) consist of transcripts, theses, news clippings, historical journals, diaries, and other sources dealing with the writing of the Book of Mormon and the Spalding manuscript. Broadhurst gathered this information for his thesis. It deals with the claim that Solomon Spaulding (1761-1816), a former Congregationalist/Presbyterian minister, wrote a manuscript that Joseph Smith later used as the basis for the Book of Mormon. Broadhurst obtained his master's degree from the Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio, in 1982.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Dale Broadhurst was born in Boise, Idaho, in April 1947. He obtained his master's degree from the Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio, in 1982.

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Content Description

The Dale R. Broadhurst papers (1800-2000) consist of transcripts, theses, news clippings, historical journals, diaries, and other sources dealing with the writing of the Book of Mormon and the Spalding Manuscript. Broadhurst gathered this information for his thesis. It deals with the claim that Solomon Spaulding (1761-1816), a former Congregationalist/Presbyterian minister, wrote a manuscript that Joseph Smith later used as the basis for the Book of Mormon. Included in the collection are the working papers for Broadhurst's master's project, as well as related notes and correspondence.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Boxes 1-23 were donated in 1986 and 1988 (11.25 linear feet). Box 24 and the CD were donated in 2000 (0.5 linear feet).

Processing Note

Processed by Heather Harkness in 1998 and 2000.

Separated Materials

Microfilm has been removed to the microfilm cabinet. Zip disks of material associated with Broadhurst's web page have been removed to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections (A0135). A CD containing the Spalding Enigma is located in the Manuscripts Divisions' CD case.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Book of Mormon Origins: Antiquities, A-Z

  • Spaulding Claim, A-Z

    • Description: Thomas G. Alexander, The Place of Joseph Smith in the Development of American Religion
      Dates: 1978
      Container: Box 5, Folder 1
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: James B. Allen, and Leonard J. Arrington, "Mormon Origins in New York"
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 5, Folder 2
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: American Journal of Psychology, Articles
      Dates: 1917-1919
      Container: Box 5, Folder 3
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Richard Lloyd Anderson, "Reliability of the Early History of Lucy and Joseph Smith," and "Joseph Smith's New York Reputation Reappraised"
      Dates: 1969-1970
      Container: Box 5, Folder 4
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Anti-Mormon Tracts from England

      J. Swinnerton, Plain Facts, Shewing the Falsehood and Folly of the Mormonites or Latter-Day Saints; Robert Hays, "Third Address to the Members of the Wesleyan Societies and Congregations, in Douglas and Its Vicinity, on the Romantic Character of the Book of Mormon; on the Profaneness and Wickedness of Adding to the Book of God; and on the Perfect Folly of Supposing that Any of the Inspired Writings Have Been Lost: also a few Remarks on Mr. Taylor's 'Calumny Refuted,'" and J. Gibbs, "The Latter-Day Saints and the Book of Mormon."

      Dates: 1840
      Container: Box 5, Folder 5
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: George Bartholomew Arbaugh, Revelation in Mormonism
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box 5, Folder 6
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: George B. Arbaugh, "Evolution of Mormon Doctrine," and Gods, Sex, and Saints
      Dates: 1940-1957
      Container: Box 5, Folder 7
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Origen Bacheler, Mormonism Exposed, Internally and Externally
      Dates: 1838
      Container: Box 5, Folder 8
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: James D. Bales, The Book of Mormon?
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 5, Folder 9
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: James D. Bales, "Book of Mormon and Spaulding Manuscripts"
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box 5, Folder 10
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Utah
      Dates: 1890
      Container: Box 5, Folder 11
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Hubert Howe Bancroft, Retrospection: Political and Personal
      Dates: 1912
      Container: Box 5, Folder 12
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Harry M. Beardsley, Joseph Smith and His Mormon Empire
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box 5, Folder 13
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Orvilla S. Belisle, The Prophets; or Mormonism Unveiled, and; Mormonism Unveiled; or, A History of Mormonism from Its Rise to the Present Time
      Dates: 1855
      Container: Box 5, Folder 14
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: John C. Bennett, The History of the Saints; or, an Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism
      Dates: 1842
      Container: Box 5, Folder 15
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: M. D. Bown, One Hundred Similarities between the Book of Mormon and the Spaulding Manuscript
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box 5, Folder 16
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Braden-Kelley Debate
      Container: Box 5, Folder 17-18
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Fawn M. Brodie, No Man Knows My History

      1977 edition.

      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 5, Folder 19
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: David Brudnoy, Liberty's Bugler, and "A Decade in Zion"
      Dates: 1971-1975
      Container: Box 5, Folder 20
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: S. Bulfinch, "The Mormons in America," Dublin Review
      Dates: 1852
      Container: Box 5, Folder 21
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Lester E. Bush, "Spaulding Theory Then and Now"
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 5, Folder 22
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: W. H. Cadman, A History of the Church of Jesus Christ
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box 6, Folder 1
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Lu B. Cake, Peepstone Joe and the Manuscript
      Dates: 1899
      Container: Box 6, Folder 2
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Henry Caswall, The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century
      Dates: 1843
      Container: Box 6, Folder 3
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Daryl Chase, "Sidney Rigdon, Early Mormon"
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box 6, Folder 4
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Edward E. Plowman, "Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?" and "Mormon Manuscript Claims: Another Look"
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 6, Folder 5
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: John A. Clark, Gleanings by the Way
      Dates: 1842
      Container: Box 6, Folder 6
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Cobb-Bancroft, Correspondence
      Dates: 1884
      Container: Box 6, Folder 7
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Richard Owen Cowan, "Mormonism in National Periodicals"
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 6, Folder 8
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Alfred Creigh, History of Washington County
      Dates: 1871
      Container: Box 6, Folder 9
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Whitney R. Cross, The Burned-Over District
      Dates: 1950
      Container: Box 6, Folder 10
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Curtis, Susan, "Palmyra Revisited: A Look at Early 19th Century American Thought and the Book of Mormon"
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 6, Folder 11
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Curtis Dahl, "Moby Dick's Cousin Behemoth," and "Mound Builders, Mormons, and William Cullen Bryant"
      Dates: 1959-1961
      Container: Box 6, Folder 12
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Inez Smith Davis, The Story of the Church

      1977 edition.

      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box 6, Folder 13
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: S. J. S. Davis, The Origin of the Book of Mormon
      Dates: 1899
      Container: Box 6, Folder 14
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Howard Davis, "Scales and Cowdery who really wrote...?"
      Container: Box 6, Folder 15
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Matilda Davison, "Origin of the 'Book of Mormon,' or 'Golden Bible,'" and "The Mormon Bible"
      Dates: 1839
      Container: Box 6, Folder 16
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Mario S. DePillis, "The Development of Mormon Communitarianism"
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 6, Folder 17
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Arthur B. Deming, "Naked Truths about Mormonism"
      Dates: 1888
      Container: Box 6, Folder 18
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: The Deseret News, Spaulding Articles
      Dates: 1850-1884
      Container: Box 6, Folder 19
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: The Deseret News, Hawaii Find
      Dates: 1885
      Container: Box 6, Folder 20
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: The Deseret News, Articles
      Dates: 1900-1930
      Container: Box 6, Folder 21
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: The Deseret News, Spaulding Articles
      Dates: 1886-1900
      Container: Box 6, Folder 22
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Bernard DeVoto, "Centennial of Mormonism"
      Dates: 1930-1936
      Container: Box 6, Folder 23
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Ellen E. Dickinson, "The Book of Mormon," Letter to the Editor
      Container: Box 6, Folder 24
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Ellen E. Dickinson, New Light On Mormonism
      Dates: 1885
      Container: Box 6, Folder 25
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Dinturff Letters
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box 6, Folder 26
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Ensign, Articles
      Dates: 1976-1977
      Container: Box 6, Folder 27
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Evening and Morning Star, Messenger and Advocate, and Elders' Journal
      Dates: 1834-1838
      Container: Box 6, Folder 28
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: R. Etzenhouser, From Palmyra, New York, to Independence, Missouri
      Dates: 1894
      Container: Box 6, Folder 29
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Evans, John H., One Hundred Years of Mormonism
      Dates: 1905 (3rd ed. 1909)
      Container: Box 6, Folder 30
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: R. C. Evans, Forty Years in the Mormon Church
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box 6, Folder 31
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: James H. Fairchild, "Solomon Spaulding and the Book of Mormon"
      Dates: 1885
      Container: Box 7, Folder 1
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: James H. Fairchild, "Manuscript of Solomon Spaulding and the Book of Mormon," and "Mormonism and the Spaulding Manuscript"
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 7, Folder 2
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Fairchild Correspondence
      Dates: 1884-1895
      Container: Box 7, Folder 3-5
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Thomas J. Farnham, "Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory"
      Dates: 1843
      Container: Box 7, Folder 6
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Robert Kent Fielding, "The Growth of the Mormon Church in Kirtland, Ohio"
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 7, Folder 7
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: George Rutledge Gibson, "Origin of a Delusion"
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 7, Folder 8
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Thomas Gregg, Prophet of Palmyra: Mormonism
      Dates: 1890
      Container: Box 7, Folder 9
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: J. W. Gunnison, Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
      Dates: 1856
      Container: Box 7, Folder 10
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Enos T. Hall, Mormon Bible
      Dates: 1899
      Container: Box 7, Folder 11
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Frank S. Harris, Book of Mormon Message and Evidences
      Dates: 1953
      Container: Box 7, Folder 12
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Marvin, S. Hill, "Secular or Sectarian History?"
      Dates: 1974
      Container: Box 7, Folder 13
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Chris B. Hartshorn, External Evidences of the Book of Mormon
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 7, Folder 14
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joshua V. Himes, Mormon Delusion and Monstrosities
      Dates: 1842
      Container: Box 7, Folder 15
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Vernal Holley, "Study of the Book of Mormon - Spaulding Theory," "A Report on the Book of Mormon Spaulding Theory," and Book of Mormon Authorship
      Dates: 1980-1982
      Container: Box 7, Folder 16
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unveiled
      Dates: 1834
      Container: Box 7, Folder 17
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Robert N. Hullinger, Mormon Answer to Skepticism, and "Lost Tribes of Israel and the Book of Mormon"
      Dates: 1970-1980
      Container: Box 7, Folder 18
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: James H. Hunt, Mormonism
      Dates: 1844
      Container: Box 7, Folder 19
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: D. P. Hurlbut, Information
      Container: Box 7, Folder 20
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Spaulding's Coneaut Neighbors, Information
      Container: Box 7, Folder 21
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Dean C. Jessee, "Spaulding Theory Re-examined"
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 7, Folder 22
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Benjamin F. Johnson, My Life's Review
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 7, Folder 23
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joseph Smith III, Correspondence
      Dates: 1884-1887
      Container: Box 7, Folder 24
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Edmund L. Kelley, Public Discussion of the Issues between the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Church of Christ
      Dates: 1913
      Container: Box 7, Folder 25
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: J. H. Kennedy, Early Days of Mormonism
      Dates: 1888
      Container: Box 7, Folder 26
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Daniel P. Kidder, Mormonism and the Mormons
      Container: Box 7, Folder 27
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: William Kirby, Mormonism Exposed and Refuted
      Dates: 1893
      Container: Box 7, Folder 28
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Francis W. Kirkham, New Witness for Christ
      Dates: 1942-1959
      Container: Box 7, Folder 29-30
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Charles W. Lamb, An Exposition of Mormonism, and a Defense of Truth
      Dates: 1878
      Container: Box 7, Folder 31
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Liahona, Articles
      Dates: 1900-1910
      Container: Box 7, Folder 32
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: William Alexander Linn, The Story of the Mormons
      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 7, Folder 33
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Richard Livesey, An Exposure of Mormonism
      Dates: 1838
      Container: Box 7, Folder 34
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: B. J. Hobart C. Lossing, "Nauvoo & Deseret"
      Dates: 1854
      Container: Box 7, Folder 35
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: James M'Chesney, An Antidote to Mormonism
      Dates: 1838
      Container: Box 8, Folder 1
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joseph F. McFalrand, 20th Century History Washington County Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box 8, Folder 2
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: E. Cecil McGavin, Cumorah's "Gold Bible"
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box 8, Folder 3
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: F. Mark McKiernan, The Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 8, Folder 4
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: J. E. Mahaffey, Found at Last! "Positive Proof" that Mormonism Is a Fraud and the Book of Mormon a Fable
      Dates: 1902
      Container: Box 8, Folder 5
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Manuscript of Solomon Spaulding in Journal of History
      Dates: 1924
      Container: Box 8, Folder 6
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Material from M. Wilford Poulson Collection
      Dates: 1920s
      Container: Box 8, Folder 7
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Henry Mayhew, The Mormons, and Samuel M. Smucker, The Religious, Social, and Political History of the Mormons
      Dates: 1851-1856
      Container: Box 8, Folder 8
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: David Merrill, "Behind Spaulding Controversy"
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 8, Folder 9
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Edward Meyer, Origin and History of the Mormons
      Dates: 1912
      Container: Box 8, Folder 10
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Millennial Star, Spaulding Mentioned
      Dates: 1840
      Container: Box 8, Folder 11
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Millennial Star, Spaulding Articles
      Dates: 1850
      Container: Box 8, Folder 12
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joseph Miller Sr., Statement in W. W. Sharp Article
      Container: Box 8, Folder 13
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: J. F. Mintun, The Book of Mormon not from Spaulding's Manuscript but a Biblical Necessity
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 8, Folder 14
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Miscellaneous Sources on Spaulding Theory
      Dates: 1835-1969
      Container: Box 8, Folder 15-31
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Miscellaneous Sources on Spaulding Theory
      Dates: 1970-1940
      Container: Box 9, Folder 1-10
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Miscellaneous Sources on the Manuscript Found in Hawaii (and Spaulding Theory)
      Container: Box 9, Folder 11
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Ray Gerald Morley, "An Investigation of Anti-Mormon Hypotheses for the Origin of the Book of Mormon"
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 9, Folder 12
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: John Morgan, "Opinions of the Leading Statesmen of the United States on the Edmunds Law"
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 9, Folder 13
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: "Mormonism; or New Mohammedanism in England and America"
      Dates: 1843
      Container: Box 9, Folder 14
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: E. Littell, conducted Mormonism Article in Ediburgh Review; Littell's Loving Age
      Dates: 1854
      Container: Box 9, Folder 15
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Mormon Collection, Arthur B. Deming Mss., Chicago History Society, 1885-1886
      Container: Box 9, Folder 16
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: New York Independent Articles: Rev. Sereno E. Bishop, Ellen Dickinson and W. H. Whitsitt "Solomon Spaulding's Manuscript"
      Container: Box 9, Folder 17
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: R. B. Neal, Anti-Mormon Material
      Dates: 1900-1910
      Container: Box 9, Folder 18
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: R. B. Neal, The Stick of Ephraim, Parts I and II
      Dates: 1899
      Container: Box 9, Folder 19
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: N. L. Nelson, The Mormon Point of View
      Dates: 1904
      Container: Box 9, Folder 20
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Hugh Nibley, "Mixed Voices," Improvement Era
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 9, Folder 21
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Oberlin Review, Articles on the Manuscript; Root Statement
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box 10, Folder 1
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Thomas F. O'Dea, The Mormons
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 10, Folder 2
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: John E. Page, The Spaulding Story Concerning the Origin of the Book of Mormon
      Dates: 1843
      Container: Box 10, Folder 3
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Benjamin Winchester, Plain Facts Shewing the Origin of the Spaulding Story, and George J. Adams, A Few Plain Facts, Shewing the Folly, Wickedness, and Imposition of the Rev. Timothy R. Matthews
      Dates: 1841-1848
      Container: Box 10, Folder 4
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Eva L. Pancoast, "Mormons at Kirtland"
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box 10, Folder 5
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Max H. Parkin, "The Nature and Cause of Internal and External Conflict of the Mormons in Ohio," and Conflict at Kirtland
      Dates: 1966-1967
      Container: Box 10, Folder 6
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Tyler Parsons, Mormon Fanaticism Exposed
      Dates: 1841
      Container: Box 10, Folder 7
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Robert Patterson, Jr., Various Letters
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 10, Folder 8
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Robert Patterson, Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? and "Solomon Spaulding and the Book of Mormon"
      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box 10, Folder 9
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Perry B. Pierce, "The Origin of the Book of Mormon"
      Dates: 1899
      Container: Box 10, Folder 10
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: S. F. Porter, The Origin of the Book of Mormon
      Dates: 1890
      Container: Box 10, Folder 11
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Parley P. Pratt, Mormonism Unveiled
      Dates: 1838
      Container: Box 10, Folder 12
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Parley P. Pratt, "Plain Facts Showing the Falsehood and Folly of the Rev. C. S. Bush," A Reply to Mr. Thomas Taylor's "Complete Failure," and Truth Defended
      Dates: 1840-1841
      Container: Box 10, Folder 13
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Notices & Newspaper Articles
      Dates: Pre-1835
      Container: Box 10, Folder 14
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: W. & R. Chambers, printers: Religious Impostors
      Dates: 1845
      Container: Box 10, Folder 15
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Reprints of Washington Reporter Statements
      Dates: 1869
      Container: Box 10, Folder 16
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Reviews of Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon?
      Dates: 1978
      Container: Box 10, Folder 17
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: George Reynolds, Writings

      Myth of Manuscript Found or the Absurdities of the "Spaulding Story," "Internal Evidences of the Book of Mormon, Showing the Absurdity of the Spaulding Story," "Internal Evidences of the Book of Mormon," "The Originator of the Spaulding Story," and "Joseph Smith's Youthful Life"

      Dates: 1882-1883
      Container: Box 10, Folder 18
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: John W. Rigdon, "History of the Early Mormon Church," "I Never Knew a Time When I Did Not Know Joseph Smith," and The Sesqui-Centennial Times
      Dates: 1900-1966
      Container: Box 10, Folder 19
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: I. Woodbridge Riley, The Founder of Mormonism
      Dates: 1903
      Container: Box 10, Folder 20
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Rigdon's Letter of Reply to Davison in the Boston Journal
      Container: Box 10, Folder 21
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: RLDS History, The History of the Reorganized Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
      Dates: 1805-1967
      Container: Box 10, Folder 22
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: B. H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and "A Parallel"
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box 10, Folder 23
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: B. H. Roberts, Defense of the Faith and the Saints, vol. I.
      Dates: 1907-1912
      Container: Box 10, Folder 24-25
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: B. H. Roberts, New Witnesses for God
      Dates: 1909
      Container: Box 10, Folder 26
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Brigham H. Roberts, "Origin of the Book of Mormon," and "History of the Mormon Church"
      Dates: 1908-1909
      Container: Box 10, Folder 27
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: B. H. Roberts, Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations Manual
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box 10, Folder 28
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Saints' Herald
      Dates: 1860-1980
      Container: Box 11, Folder 1-5
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Theodore Schroeder, "The Origin of the Book of Mormon"
      Dates: 1906
      Container: Box 11, Folder 6
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Charles A. Shook, Cumorah Revisited
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box 11, Folder 7
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Charles A. Shook, The True Origin of the Book of Mormon
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 11, Folder 8
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Elbert A. Smith, The Spaulding Romance Theory Reviewed
      Dates: 1914
      Container: Box 11, Folder 9
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: George A. Smith, "Divine Origin of Mormonism"
      Dates: 1858
      Container: Box 11, Folder 10
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joseph F. Smith, "The Manuscript Found," Improvement Era
      Dates: 1900
      Container: Box 11, Folder 11
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joseph Smith III, Joseph Smith III and the Restoration
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box 11, Folder 12
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joseph Smith III, The Spaulding Story Re-examined
      Dates: 1883
      Container: Box 11, Folder 13
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joseph Fielding Smith, Life of Joseph F. Smith
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box 11, Folder 14
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: T. C. Smith, The Book of Mormon & Mormonism
      Container: Box 11, Folder 15
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: James H. Snowden, Truth about Mormonism
      Dates: 1926
      Container: Box 11, Folder 16
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Solomon Spaulding, "Manuscript Found"
      Dates: 1885-1910
      Container: Box 11, Folder 17-18
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Millennial Star, "Spaulding Story"
      Dates: 1880
      Container: Box 11, Folder 19
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Jerome Stoffel, Joseph Smith and the Mormon Dilemma
      Dates: 1971
      Container: Box 11, Folder 20
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: LaRoy Sunderland, Mormonism Exposed
      Dates: 1842
      Container: Box 11, Folder 21
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Did Spaulding Write the Book of Mormon?
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 12, Folder 1
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: John Taylor, "Calumny Refuted and the Truth Defended," and An Answer to some False Statements and Misrepresentations Made by Rev. Robert Hayes
      Dates: 1840
      Container: Box 12, Folder 2
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: David Techter, "Who Wrote the Book of Mormon?"
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 12, Folder 3
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Thomas Gregg, Letters at the Chicago History Society
      Dates: 1880-1886
      Container: Box 12, Folder 4
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Charles Thompson, Evidences in Proof of the Book of Mormon
      Dates: 1841
      Container: Box 12, Folder 5
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Three Researchers News Articles
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 12, Folder 6
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Times and Seasons Articles
      Container: Box 12, Folder 7
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Pomeroy Tucker, Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism
      Dates: 1867
      Container: Box 12, Folder 8
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Jonathan B. Turner, Mormonism in All Ages
      Dates: 1842
      Container: Box 12, Folder 9
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Orasmus Turner, History of the Pioneer Settlement of Phelps and Gorham's Purchase, and Morris' Reserve
      Dates: 1851
      Container: Box 12, Folder 10
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Wesley P. Walter, "The Spaulding Affair," and Correspondence
      Dates: 1978
      Container: Box 12, Folder 11
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: J. N. Washburn, The Contents, Structure, and Authorship of the Book of Mormon
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 12, Folder 12
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Robert C. Webb, The Case against Mormonism, and The Real Mormonism
      Dates: 1915-1916
      Container: Box 12, Folder 13
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: A. Dean Wengreen, "An Analysis of One Hundred Similarities Between the Book of Mormon and the Spaulding Manuscript"
      Dates: 1964
      Container: Box 12, Folder 14
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Wm. S. West, A Few Interesting Facts
      Dates: 1837
      Container: Box 12, Folder 15
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Joseph Welles White, "Influence of Sidney Rigdon upon the Theology of Mormonism"
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 12, Folder 16
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: David Whitmer, An Address to All Believers in Christ
      Dates: 1887
      Container: Box 12, Folder 17
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Orson F. Whitney, History of Utah
      Dates: 1892
      Container: Box 12, Folder 18
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Whitsitt Lecture, and Letter to Editor about the Lecture
      Dates: 1882
      Container: Box 12, Folder 19
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: William. H. Whitsitt, Polemic Theology Intermediate Examination
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 12, Folder 20
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: William H. Whitsitt, "Sidney Rigdon, The Real Founder of Mormonism"
      Dates: 1885
      Container: Box 12, Folder 21
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: David J. Whittaker, "Early Mormon Pamphleteering"
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 12, Folder 22
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Charles H. Whittier, and Stephen W. Stathis, "The Enigma of Spaulding"
      Dates: 1977
      Container: Box 12, Folder 23
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: John A. Widtsoe, Joseph Smith, Seeker after the Truth, Prophet of God
      Dates: 1957
      Container: Box 12, Folder 24
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Samuel Williams, "Mormonism Exposed"
      Dates: 1842
      Container: Box 12, Folder 25
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Benjamin Winchester, The Origin of the Spaulding Story
      Dates: 1840
      Container: Box 12, Folder 26
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: W. Wyl, Mormon Portraits
      Dates: 1886
      Container: Box 12, Folder 27
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: American Whig Review, "Yankee Mahomet"
      Dates: 1851
      Container: Box 12, Folder 28
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Seymour B. Young, "The Book of Mormon and the Spaulding Manuscript"
      Dates: 1898
      Container: Box 12, Folder 29
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z
    • Description: Wesley Ziegler, An Analysis of the Book of Mormon
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 12, Folder 30
      Location: Spaulding Claim, A-Z

  • Spaulding Claim: Broadhurst Notes, A-Z

  • Spaulding Claim: Miscellaneous Papers, A-Z

  • Spaulding Claim: Spaulding Manuscript

  • General Materials and Manuscripts

  • Sidney Rigdon and the Disciples

  • Book of Mormon, Joseph Smith, and Campbellism

  • Miscellaneous Materials

    • Description: Book of Mormon Chart & Spaulding Material
      Container: Box 23, Folder 1
      Location: Miscellaneous Materials
    • Description: Dale W. Adams, "Judge Not: The Saga of D. P. Hurlbut"
      Dates: 1995
      Container: Box 23, Folder 2
      Location: Miscellaneous Materials
    • Description: 3 x 5 index cards on Book of Mormon, Sidney Rigdon, and Spaulding
      Container: Box 23, Folder 3
      Location: Miscellaneous Materials
    • Description: Spalding Studies Home Page
      Container: Box 23, Folder 4
      Location: Miscellaneous Materials

  • Spaulding Enigma, 2000

    • Description: Crisis at Kirtland: D. P. Hurlburt and the Mormons
      Dates: 1832-1834
      Container: Box 24, Folder 1
      Location: Spaulding Enigma, 2000
    • Description: Doctor Philastus Hurlburt
      Dates: 2000
      Container: Box 24, Folder 2
      Location: Spaulding Enigma, 2000
    • Description: Wayne L. Cowdery, Dr. Howard A. Davis, Hugh Leo O'Neal, and Authur Vanick, Who Really wrote the Book of Mormon?
      Dates: 2000
      Container: Box 24, Volume 1-2
      Location: Spaulding Enigma, 2000

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1998 (last modified: 2019)

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