Welcome to
The New Spalding Library



On-Line Texts:  Main Department

Over the past decades institutional libraries and private collections have accumulated a voluminous literature regarding the Solomon Spalding Authorship Theory for the Book of Mormon. There are also numerous old documents which relate to Spalding himself, as well as to his associates, and his period in history. Since it is impractical to transcribe into e-texts even a modest fraction of the existing Spalding-related materials, only a few of the most important of these items have been reproduced and posted to this on-line Library. In most cases the e-texts available in this "Main Department" of the Library are limited to newer texts, excerpts from lengthier documents or samples from wider collections. Some books and articles featured here are still under copyright, so only short samples from their texts are made available for your consultation. Many more complete and specially relevant texts and graphics are now on-line in the Spalding Studies Special Collections. Numerous other, interrelated documents respecting Solomon Spalding, the Book of Mormon, and Mormon origins can be found on-line at the Mormon Classics E-texts web-site. - Important Notice - The e-texts posted in this on-line have been checked for their accuracy in reproducing the contents of their parent documents. While small errors in transcription and formatting are inevitable, the texts themselves are generally reliable. However, these e-texts are not perfect replacements for the originals. Please consult the appropriate research library collections for purposes of exact quotation and for proper bibliographic citation. The vast majority of these texts and documents are in the public domain. In some instances their originals are the property of public or private library collections and the owners have been informed of their reproduction here. A few of the more recent texts are excerpted from copyrighted published works. These short excerpts are provided as a public service under the "fair use" provisions of the U.S. Code (Copyright Act, Title 17, 107) and similar international copyright agreements. It is not intended that the reproductions posted here infringe in any way upon authors' or publishers' intellectual property rights. If you come across an excerpt posted to this Library which you feel violates the broad interpretation of general copyright law and practice, please inform the Site Librarian at once, and that item will be abbreviated or paraphrased to insure a full compliance with such law and practice. Dale R. Broadhurst Oct. 25, 2000

This page is still under construction.
Numerous are being moved to here from:

The Old Spalding Library

On-Line Texts: 1700-1899
Bancroft, H. H.    1889 History of Utah Belisle, Orvilla    1855 Mormonism Unveiled Cleveland Plain Dealer    1887 Article on Ethan Smith Creigh, Alfred    1870, 71 History of Washington Co., PA (no author listed)    1882 Hist. of Wash. Co.	Porter, Samuel F.    1890? Origin of Book of Mormon Howe, Henry    1847 Hist. Coll. of Ohio Marryat, Frederick    1843 Monsieur Violet St. John, Percy B.    1861 Jessie, the Mormon's Daughter

On-Line Texts: 1900-1999

Anderson, Arthur A.    1999 Dark Mormon Beginnings Anderson, Richard L.    1970 "J. Smith's NY Reputation Reappraised" Anderson, Richard L.    1991 review of R. I. Anderson book Anderson, Rodger I.    1990 J. Smith's NY Reputation Reexamined Bales, James D.    1942 Spalding-BoM parallels list Bales, James D.    1958 Spalding-BoM parallels Bouissou, Jean C.    1997 Faith of the Church (RLDS) Brodie, Fawn    1945 No Man Knows My History Brooke, John L.    1994 The Refiner's Fire Brown, R. & R.    1984, 92 The Lie in Wait to Deceive II Bush, Lester    1977 article on Spalding Consolation Magazine    1945 article on Spalding-BoM parallels Cross, Whitney R.    1950 The Burned-Over District DeVoto, Bernard    1930-36 "Centennial of Mormonism Forrest, Earl L.    1926 History of Washington Co. PA Fuller, Barney    1994 Burning of Strange Fire

Homans, J. E.    1915 Case Against Mormonism    (under constr.) Jackson, Kent P. (ed.)    1996 Manuscript Found... (BYU ed.) Judd, Mary G.    1959 Jedediah M. Grant McFarland, Joseph F.    1910 20th Cent. Hist. of Wash. Co. Martin, Walter    1962 & 1978 Maze of Mormonism Morgan, Dale L.    1945 review of Brodie's book Nibley, Hugh    1959 article on Spalding-BoM parallels Persuitte, David     1986 Joseph Smith & Origins of BoM Riggs, Michael S.    1997 Article on Justus Morse Sheldon, Henry C.    1914 Fourfold Test of Mormonism Smith, Willard C.    1979 "In the Shadow of Solomon Spalding" Turley, Richard E.    1992 Victims  (under constr.) Van Wagoner, Richard S.    1994 Sidney Rigdon Vogel, Dan    1998 EMD Vol. 2 Wayne, John L.    1946 "Solomon Spaulding's MS" Winwood, Richard I.    1995 Take Heed... Be Not Deceived

On-Line Texts: 2000-2011

Adams, Dale W    2000 D. P. Hurlbut article (excerpts) Knowles, Lloyd A.    2000 S. Rigdon dissertation (excerpts)     Rigdon journal article  (both under constr.) Cowdrey, Wayne L., et al.    2000 The Spalding Enigma (CD-ROM) Brown, Matthew B.    2003 "Ask the Apologist" -- Spalding etc.    2003 Plates of Gold  (under constr.) Walker, Ronald W. et al.    2001 Mormon History Givens, Terryl L.    2002 By the Hand of Mormon Mitton, George L.    2004 "Anti-Mormon Writings" Grua, David W. 2005  "Joseph Smith & the 1834 DP Hurlbut Case"    (under constr. at "Crisis at Kirtland" site) Peterson, Daniel C.    2004 "Hope that Something will Stick"    (under constr.) Cowdrey, Wayne L., et al.    2005 Who Really Wrote the BoM?

Criddle, Craig    2005-09 "Sidney Rigdon"  (off site) Morgan, Willard    2005 Keystone or Millstone? Roper, Matthew P.    2005 "Mythical 'Manuscript Found'" Bushman, Richard L.    2005 JS: Rough Stone Rolling FAIRwiki editors    2006 Spalding Authorship Claims page Vanick & Cowdery    2006 Spalding Claims video Morris, Daniel    2008 Grave Cr. Connections Jockers, Witten & Criddle    2008 "Reassessing Authorship of BoM" R. Hancock    2009 "Unraveling S/R Theory"  (off site) Criddle, Craig    2009 "Narrative for BoM"  (under constr.) Tanner, Jerald & Sandra    2010 Joseph Smith's Plagiarism     (under constr.)