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''Sources which accept the Spalding manuscript theory:''
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* “History of Mormanism,” ''The Ohio Repository'' (Canton, Ohio) (1 September 1836).  Reprinted from ''New York Commercial Advertiser'', circa August 1836. {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=1276&REC=17}}
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'''Sources which accept the Spalding manuscript theory:'''
* “The Mormon Mystery Developed,” ''Wayne Sentinel'' (Palmyra, New York) (20 December 1833). {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=674&REC=2}} {{earliest}}
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* {{CriticalWork:A Little Talk:1840|pages=1–8}}
* “The Mormon Book,” ''Michigan Sentinel'' (3 May 1834). {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=834&REC=6}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Alton Telegraph:5 May 1839|pages=??}}
* “Mormon Trial,” ''Chardon Spectator and Geauga Gazette'' (12 April 1834). {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=855&REC=4}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Alton Telegraph:1 June 1839|pages=??}}
* “Mormonism,” ''New York Weekly Messenger and Young Men’s Advocate'' (29 April 1835). Reprinted from ''The Pioneer'' (Rock Springs, Illinois), March 1835. {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=1105&REC=17}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Atkinson's Evening Post:25 May 1839|pages=???}}
* “Mormonism—Its History,” ''Philadelphia Mirror'' (22 August 1836). {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=1250&REC=15}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Atheneum:July 1841:Book of Mormon and the Mormonites|pages=370–74}}
*A. Campbell, “Mormonism Unveiled,” ''Millennial Harbinger'' (Bethany, Virginia) 6, no. 1 (January 1835): 44–45. {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=1161&REC=6}} {{an|Campbell here abandons his earlier certainty that Joseph Smith alone was responsible for the Book of Mormon.}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Auburn Journal and Advertiser:December 1841:Mormons|pages=xxx}}
* {{CriticalWork:Caswall:Prophet of the Nineteenth Century|pages=13&ndash;25}}  
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* {{CriticalWork:Chardon Spectator:12 April 1834:Mormon Trial|pages=??}}
*{{CriticalWork:Clark:Gleanings by the Way|pages=246&ndash;254}}.
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*{{CriticalWork:Christian Advocate and Journal:29 July 1841:Letter on Mormonism|pages=??}}
*D. Griffiths, Jun., ''Two Years’ Residence in the New Settlements of Ohio, North America: With Directions to Emigrants'' (London: Westley and Davis, 1835), 134&ndash;139&ndash;140. {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=1017&REC=4}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Christian Advocate and Journal:11 August 1841:Letter on Mormonism|pages=xxx}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Christian Register and Boston Observer:4 May 1839:Mormon Bible|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Christian Register and Boston Observer:11 May 1839:For the Register and Observer|pages=xxx}}  
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* {{CriticalWork:Christian Reformer:June 1841:Mormonism|pages=386}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Michigan Sentinel:3 May 1834:Mormon Book|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:MormonThink|date=22 April 2012|url=http://mormonthink.com/witnessesweb.htm}}
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* {{CriticalWork:New York Weekly Messenger:29 April 1835:Mormonism|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Ohio Repository:1 September 1836:History of Mormanism|pages=??}} {{an|Does not attribute some work to Rigdon, who is said to be a convert only after the book's publication.}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Painsville Telegraph:31 January 1834:To the Public|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Philadelphia Mirror:22 August 1836:Mormonism Its History|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Trumpet and Universalist Magazine:3 September 1836:Origin of the Mormon Bible|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Trumpet and Universalist:18 May 1839:Mormon Bible|pages=n.p.}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Wayne Sentinel:20 December 1833|pages=??}} {{earliest}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Bachelor:Mormonism Exposed|pages=1}}
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* {{CriticalWork:BD:29 June 1839|pages=??}}  
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* {{CriticalWork:Badlam:16 November 1839|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Campbell:Mormonism Unveiled|pages=44-45}} {{an|Campbell here abandons his earlier certainty that Joseph Smith alone was responsible for the Book of Mormon.}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Campbell:Mormon Bible|pages=267–68}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Campbell:Mistakes Touching the Book of Mormon|pages=37-38}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Caswall:Prophet of the Nineteenth Century|pages=12&ndash;25}}  
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* {{CriticalWork:Clark:Gleanings by the Way|pages=246&ndash;254}}.
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*{{CriticalWork:Clark:Gleanings by the Way VII|pages=?}} }
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* {{CriticalWork:Clark:Gleanings by the Way X|pages=114-115}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Clericus:Mormonism|pages=1}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Criddle:Sidney Rigdon Creating the Book of Mormon|pages=multiple}}
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*{{CriticalWork:Daily Morning Post:23 November 1842|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Griffiths:Two Years Residence|pages=134&ndash;140}}
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* Father Brian Harrison, "The Wacky World of Joseph Smith: And the un-Christianity of Mormon Theology," Part 2 of 2 from a pamphlet published by the Australian Catholic Truth Society (no date given) {{antilink|http://archive.catholic.com/thisrock/2003/0305fea4.asp}}
 
* {{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pages=277&ndash;}} {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=852&REC=6}}.
 
* {{CriticalWork:Howe:Mormonism Unvailed|pages=277&ndash;}} {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=852&REC=6}}.
*{{CriticalWork:Linn:Story of the Mormons|pages=??}}
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*{{CriticalWork:Hunt:Mormonism|pages=34-35,83}}
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* {{CriticalWork:JAH:Origin of Mormonism|pages=??}} 
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* {{CriticalWork:Kidder:Mormonism and the Mormons|pages=35-49}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Lee:Knavery Exposed|pages=2-3}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Linn:Story of the Mormons|pages=??}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Livesey:Exposure of Mormonism|pages=4&ndash;5}}
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* {{CriticalWork:M'Chesney:Antidote to Mormonism|pages=18, 49}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Morrish:Latter-day Saints and the Book of Mormon|pages=1-4}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Peck:Mormonism and the Mormons|pages=111–27}} 
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* {{CriticalWork:Philanthropist:Mormonism Unmasked|pages=7}}  
 
* {{CriticalWork:Stenhouse:Tell It All|pages=267}}
 
* {{CriticalWork:Stenhouse:Tell It All|pages=267}}
*{{CriticalWork:Wyl:Mormon Portraits Volume First|pages=20, 118, 122&ndash;124, 238&ndash;243}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Storrs:Mormonism|pages=??}}
*{{CriticalWork:Tucker:Origin Rise and Progress|pages=111&ndash;128}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Sunderland:Mormonism|pages=34, citing Howe}}
* “To the Public,” ''Painesville Telegraph'' (Painesville, Ohio) (31 January 1834) {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=825&REC=19}}.
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* {{CriticalWork:Tucker:Origin Rise and Progress|pages=111&ndash;128}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Wickersham:Examination of the Principles of Mormonism/Full title|pages=1-21}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Wyl:Mormon Portraits Volume First|pages=20, 118, 122&ndash;124, 238&ndash;243}}
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''Claimed the existence of a '''second''' Spalding manuscript when the first theory failed:''
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'''Claimed the existence of a ''second'' Spalding manuscript when the first theory failed:'''
*George B. Arbaugh, ''Revelation in Mormonism'' (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1932).
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* {{CriticalWork:Arbaugh:Revelation in Mormonism|pages=?}}
*{{CriticalWork:Cowdery:Who Really Wrote 1|pages=1&ndash;}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Cowdery:Who Really Wrote 1|pages=1&ndash;}}
*{{CriticalWork:Cowdery:Who Really Wrote 2|pages=1&ndash;}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Cowdery:Who Really Wrote 2|pages=1&ndash;}}
*{{CriticalWork:Martin:Kingdom of the Cults|pages=213, n15-16}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Martin:Kingdom of the Cults|pages=213, n15-16}}
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* {{CriticalWork:West:Few Interesting Facts|pages=15-16}}
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* {{CriticalWork:Williams:Mormonism Exposed|pages=1-2}} (citing ''Mormonism Unvailed'')
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* {{MS1|author=Anon.|article=Caswall’s Prophet of the Nineteenth Century|vol=3|num=12|date=April 1843|start=196}} {{link|url=http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/BOMP&CISOPTR=3557&REC=17}}
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* {{Book:Adams:Few Plain Facts|pages=ii–16}}
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* {{Book:Appleby:Mormonism Consistent|pages=1–24}}
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* {{Book:Hardy:Hypocrisy Exposed|pages=3-12}}
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* {{Book:Page:Mormonism Defended|pages=??}}
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* {{Book:Page:Mormonism alias Truth|pages=??}} 
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* {{Book:Pratt:Joe Smith and the Devil|pages=??}}
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* {{Book:PP Pratt:Mormonites|pages=45-46}}
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* {{Book:PP Pratt:Reply to Complete Failure|pages=1-9}}
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* {{Book:Pratt:Reply to the Athenaeum|pages=1-5}}
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* {{Book:Taylor:Calumny Refuted|pages=1–12}}
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* {{Periodical:Snow Winchester:Address to the Citizens of Salem|pages=574-76}}
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* {{Periodical:Winchester:Origin of the Spaulding Story|pages=1-16, 20-21}}
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Latest revision as of 12:50, 27 April 2024

Source(s) of the criticism
Critical sources
Sources which accept the Spalding manuscript theory:
  • A Little Talk, Between John Robinson and his Master about Mormonism, Shewing its Origin, Absurdity, and Impiety (Bedford: W. White, 1840), 1–8. off-site
  • “The Mormons,” Alton Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) 4, no. 22 (25 May 1839). off-site
  • “More About the Mormon Bible,” Alton Telegraph (Alton, Illinois) 4, no. 23 (1 June 1839). off-site
  • “Origin of Mormonism,” Atkinson’s Evening Post, and Philadelphia Saturday News (Philadelphia) 18 (25 May 1839). off-site
  • “The Book of Mormon and the Mormonites,” Athenaeum, Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art 42 (July 1841): 370–74. off-site
  • “The Mormons,” Auburn Journal and Advertiser (22 December 1841). off-site
  • “Mormon Trial,” Chardon Spectator and Geauga Gazette (12 April 1834). off-site
  • [Letter on Mormonism, 29 July 1841,] Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 15, no. 52 (11 August 1841). off-site
  • [Letter on Mormonism, 26 July 1841,] Christian Advocate and Journal (New York) 15, no. 52 (11 August 1841). off-site
  • “The Mormon Bible,” Christian Register and Boston Observer (Boston, Massachusetts) 18, no. 970 (4 May 1839). off-site
  • C, “For the Register and Observer,” Christian Register and Boston Observer (Boston) 18, no. 971 (11 May 1839). off-site
  • “Mormonism (from the Scotsman),” The Christian Reformer; or, Unitarian Magazine and Review 8 (June 1841): 386. off-site
  • “The Mormon Book,” Michigan Sentinel (3 May 1834). off-site
  • MormonThink.com website (as of 22 April 2012). Page: http://mormonthink.com/witnessesweb.htm
  • “Mormonism,” New York Weekly Messenger and Young Men’s Advocate (29 April 1835). Reprinted from The Pioneer (Rock Springs, Illinois), March 1835. off-site
  • “History of Mormanism,” The Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio) (1 September 1836). Reprinted from New York Commercial Advertiser, circa August 1836. off-site
    Does not attribute some work to Rigdon, who is said to be a convert only after the book's publication.
  • “To the Public,” Painesville Telegraph (Painesville, Ohio) (31 January 1834). off-site
  • “Mormonism—Its History,” Philadelphia Mirror (22 August 1836). off-site
  • “Origin of the Mormon Bible,” Trumpet and Universalist Magazine (Boston) (3 September 1836). off-site
  • “The Mormon Bible,” Trumpet and Universalist Magazine (Boston) 11, no. 48 (18 May 1839), n.p.. off-site
  • “The Mormon Mystery Developed,” Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, New York) (20 December 1833). off-site [the earliest mention of this concept which FAIR has identified]
  • Origen Bachelor, Mormonism Exposed Internally and Externally (New York: Privately Published, 1838), 1. off-site
  • B. D., “Mormonism,” Peoria Register and North-Western Gazetteer (Peoria, Illinois) 3, no. 13 (29 June 1839). off-site
  • Alexander Badlam, “A Cunning Device Detected,” Quincy Whig (Quincy, Illinois) 2, no. 29 (16 November 1839). off-site
  • A[lexander] Campbell, “Mormonism Unveiled,” Millennial Harbinger (Bethany, Virginia) 6, no. 1 (January 1835): 44-45. off-site
    Campbell here abandons his earlier certainty that Joseph Smith alone was responsible for the Book of Mormon.
  • Alexander Campbell, “The Mormon Bible,” Millennial Harbinger 3, no. 6 (June 1839): 267–68. off-site
  • A.C.[Alexander Campbell], “Mistakes Touching the Book of Mormon,” Millennial Harbinger 1, no. 1 (January 1844): 37-38. off-site
  • Henry Caswall, The Prophet of the Nineteenth Century, or, the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints : To Which Is Appended an Analysis of the Book of Mormon (London: Printed for J. G. F. & J. Rivington, 1843), 12–25. off-site
  • Rev. John A. Clark, Gleanings by the Way, (Philadelphia: W.J. and J.K. Simon; New York: Robert Carter, 1842), 246–254 off-site.
  • John A. Clark, “Gleanings by the Way. No. VII,” Episcopal Recorder (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 18, no. 25 (12 September 1840), ?. off-site }
  • John A. Clark, “Gleanings by the Way No. X,” Episcopal Recorder (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (10 October 1840): 114-115. off-site
  • Clericus, “Mormonism,” Christian Register (Boston) 15, no. 52 (24 December 1836): 1. Reprinted from Hampshire Gazette, circa December 1836. (Cites Mormonism Unvailed). off-site
  • Craig Criddle, "Sidney Rigdon:Creating the Book of Mormon," e-paper, sidneyrigdon.com (originally published 8 October 2005; revised 15 Mar 2009), multiple.
  • “Mormonism,” Daily Morning Post (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) no. 64 (23 November 1842). off-site
  • D. Griffiths, Jun., Two Years’ Residence in the New Settlements of Ohio, North America: With Directions to Emigrants (London: Westley and Davis, 1835), 134–140. off-site
  • Father Brian Harrison, "The Wacky World of Joseph Smith: And the un-Christianity of Mormon Theology," Part 2 of 2 from a pamphlet published by the Australian Catholic Truth Society (no date given) http://archive.catholic.com/thisrock/2003/0305fea4.asp
  • Eber D. Howe, Mormonism Unvailed (Painesville, OH, 1834), 277–. (Affidavits examined) off-site.
  • James H. Hunt, Mormonism: Embracing the Origin, Rise and Progress of the Sect (St. Louis: Ustick and Davies, 1844), 34-35,83. off-site
  • J.A.H., “Origin of Mormonism,” Wayne County Whig (Lyons) 3, no. 51 (14 September 1842). off-site
  • Daniel P. Kidder, Mormonism and the Mormons (New York:Lane and Sandford, 1842), 35-49. off-site Full title
  • E. G. Lee, The Mormons, or Knavery Exposed (Frankford, Philadelphia: Webber & Fenimore, 1841), 2-3. off-site Full title
  • William Alexander Linn, The Story of the Mormons (New York: Macmillan, 1902), ??.
  • Richard Livesey, An Exposure of Mormonism, being a statement of facts relating to the self-styled “Latter day Saints,” and the Origin of the Book of Mormon (Preston: J. Livesey, 1838), 4–5. off-site
  • James M’Chesney, An Antidote To Mormonism, revised by G. J. Bennet (New York, NY: Burnett & Pollard, 1838), 18, 49. off-site Full title
  • W. J. Morrish, The Latter-day Saints and the Book of Mormon. A Few Words of Warning from a Minister to his Flock (Ledbury: J. Gibbs, 1840), 1-4.
  • George Peck, “Mormonism and the Mormons,” Methodist Quarterly Review (January 1843): 111–27. off-site
  • Philanthropist of Chester County, Mormonism Unmasked, Showed to be an Impious Imposture, and Mr. Bennett’s Reply Answered and Refuted (Philadelphia: T. K. & P. G. Collins, 1840), 7. off-site Response
  • Stenhouse, "Tell It All", 267.
  • John Storrs, “Mormonism,” Boston Recorder (Boston, Massachusetts) 24 (19 April 1839). off-site
  • La Roy Sunderland, “Mormonism,” Zion’s Watchman (New York) 3, no. 9 (3 March 1838): 34, citing Howe. off-site
  • Pomeroy Tucker, Origin, Rise, and Progress: of Mormonism.... (New York: D. Appleton, 1867), 111–128.
  • Amos H. Wickersham, An Examination of the Principles of Mormonism, as Developed in the Recent Discussion Between the Author and Elders Wharton & Appleby, With a Brief Statement of Facts in Regard to Said Discussion (Wilmington, DE: Allderidge, Jeandell, & Miles, 1843), 1-21. off-site Reply
  • Wilhelm Wyl, Mormon Portraits Volume First: Joseph Smith the Prophet, His Family and Friends (Salt Lake City: Tribune Printing and Publishing Co., 1886), 20, 118, 122–124, 238–243.

Claimed the existence of a second Spalding manuscript when the first theory failed:

  • George B. Arbaugh, Revelation in Mormonism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1932), ?.
  • Howard A. Davis, Wayne L. Cowdrey, and Walter Martin, Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? (Santa Ana, Ca.: Vision House Publishers, 1977), 1–. Analysis
  • Wayne L. Cowdrey, Howard A. Davis, and Arthur Vanick, Who Really Wrote the Book of Mormon? The Spalding Enigma. (St. Louis: Concordia, 2005), 1–. Analysis
  • Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised) (Minneapolis: Bethany House Publishers, 1997), 213, n15-16. ( Index of claims )
  • William S. West, A Few Interesting Facts, Respecting the Rise Progress and Pretensions of the Mormons (1837), 15-16. off-site
  • S. Williams, Mormonism Exposed (1838), 1-2. off-site (citing Mormonism Unvailed)
Past responses
  • Anon., "Caswall’s Prophet of the Nineteenth Century," Millennial Star 3 no. 12 (April 1843), 196. off-site
  • George J. Adams, A Few Plain Facts (Bedford: C. B. Merry, 1841), ii–16. Full title
  • W.I. Appleby, Mormonism Consistent! Truth Vindicated, and Falsehood Exposed and Refuted: Being A Reply to A. H. Wickersham (Wilmington DE: Porter & Nafe, 1843), 1–24.
  • John Hardy, Hypocrisy Exposed (Boston: Albert Morgan, 1842), 3-12 off-site Full title
  • John E. Page, “Mormonism Defended,” Morning Chronicle (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) (2 July 1842). off-site
  • John E. Page, “Mormonism, alias Truth,” Morning Chronicle (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) (8 July 1842). off-site
  • [Parley P. Pratt,] “Joe Smith and the Devil: A Dialogue,” The New York Herald (New York) 10, no. 236 (25 August 1844). off-site
  • Parley P. Pratt, "The Mormonites. To the Editor of the New Era [Reprinted from New Era (New York) (27 November 1839)," Times and Seasons 1 no. 3 (January 1840), 45-46. off-site GospeLink off-site
  • Parley P. Pratt, A Reply to...“Complete Failure,”...and...“Mormonism Exposed,” (Manchester: W. R. Thomas, 1840), 1-9. off-site Full title
  • Parley P. Pratt, "Reply to the Athenæum: Being An Exposition of the Ignorance and Folly of men Who Oppose the Truth," Millennial Star 2 no. 1 (May 1841), 1-5. off-site
  • John Taylor, Calumny Refuted and the Truth Defended (Liverpool: J. Tompkins, 1840), 1–12. Full title
  • E. Snow and Benjamin Winchester, "An Address to the Citizens of Salem (Mass.) And Vicinity," Times and Seasons 2 no. 24 (1 October 1841), 574-76. off-site GospeLink off-site
  • B[enjamin] Winchester, The Origin of the Spaulding Story, Concerning the Manuscript Found (Philadelphia: Brown, Bicking & Guilpert, 1840), 1-16, 20-21 off-site