Book of Mormon -- Controversial literature
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
One hundred similarities between the Book of Mormon and the Spaulding Manuscript
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230316256]
Identifier: MSS SC 1825
Scope and Contents
Typed carbon copy. Bown argues that Joseph Smith was, as the author of the Book of Mormon, heavily influenced by Spaulding's manuscript.
Dates:
circa 1940
The origin of Mormonism and reminiscences of the Mormons in Illinois
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233634]
Identifier: MSS SC 89
Scope and Contents
Prepared typescript of a series of ten articles written by J.H. Sherman which appeared in the Ithaca Daily Journal during April and May, 1886. The articles, decidedly anti-Mormon, tell of Joseph Smith's early life, the Solomon Spaulding manuscript from which Smith supposedly got the idea for the Book of Mormon, the organization of the Latter-day Saint Church, the settlement of the Mormons in Nauvoo, Illinois, death of Joseph Smith, mob violence in Illinois, expulsion of the Mormons from...
Dates:
1886