Footnotes
Copyright for Book of Mormon, 11 June 1829, clerk’s copy, New York North District, Copyright Book, vol. 116, p. 107, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC.
Copyright for Book of Mormon, 11 June 1829. Clerk’s copy. New York North District, Copyright Book, vol. 116, p. 107. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC.
“Inventory of Church Property,” 17 Mar. 1847, photocopy, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
Footnotes
Finkelstein and McCleery, Introduction to Book History, 75.
Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery. An Introduction to Book History. New York: Routledge, 2005.
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Securing Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of Such Copies, during the Times Therein Mentioned [31 May 1790], Public Statutes at Large, 1st Cong., 2nd Sess., chap. 15, pp. 124–126.
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.
Preface to Book of Mormon, ca. Aug. 1829; see also Historical Introductions to Revelation, July 1828 [D&C 3]; and to Revelation, Spring 1829 [D&C 10].
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning [31 May 1790], Public Statutes at Large, 1st Cong., 2nd Sess., chap. 15, p. 125, secs. 3–4; An Act Supplementary to an Act Entitled “An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of Such Copies, during the Times Therein Mentioned,” and Extending the Benefits Thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical and Other Prints [29 Apr. 1802], Public Statutes at Large, 7th Cong., 1st Sess., chap. 36, p. 171, sec. 1; see also Wadsworth, “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon,” 81–85.
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.
Wadsworth, Nathaniel Hinckley. “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 45, no. 3 (2006): 77–99.
An Act for the Encouragement of Learning [31 May 1790], Public Statutes at Large, 1st Cong., 2nd Sess., chap. 15, p. 125, sec. 3.
The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from the Organization of the Government in 1789, to March 3, 1845. . . . Edited by Richard Peters. 8 vols. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846–1867.
See Skousen, Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon, 6, 14.
Skousen, Royal, ed. The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Extant Text. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Thurlow Weed, Statement, New York City, NY, 12 Apr. 1880, in Dickinson, New Light on Mormonism, 260–261.
Dickinson, Ellen E. New Light on Mormonism. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1885.
Pomeroy Tucker, the editor of Grandin’s Wayne Sentinel, recalled that Grandin decided to print the Book of Mormon after Marshall agreed to do so. John H. Gilbert explained that Grandin accepted after he was approached the second time, “Harris assuring Grandin that the book would be printed in Rochester if he declined the job again.” Gilbert added, “Mr Grandin consented to do the job if his terms were accepted.” (Tucker, Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism, 50–53; John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL.)
Tucker, Pomeroy. Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism: Biography of Its Founders and History of Its Church. New York: D. Appleton, 1867.
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
JS History, vol. A-1, 34.
John H. Gilbert, Statement, 23 Oct. 1887, CHL; Indenture, Martin Harris to Egbert B. Grandin, Wayne Co., NY, 25 Aug. 1829, Wayne Co., NY, Mortgage Records, vol. 3, pp. 325–326, microfilm 479,556, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; see also Historical Introduction to Revelation, ca. Summer 1829 [D&C 19].
Gilbert, John H. Statement, 23 Oct. 1887. CHL. MS 2370.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
News item, Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, NY), 26 June 1829, [3].
Wayne Sentinel. Palmyra, NY. 1823–1852, 1860–1861.
See “The Book of Mormon,” Wayne Sentinel (Palmyra, NY), 26 Mar. 1830, [3].
Wayne Sentinel. Palmyra, NY. 1823–1852, 1860–1861.
In January 1830, Abner Cole published portions of the Book of Mormon in three issues of the Palmyra Reflector but then stopped, apparently because JS asserted his copyright authority. (Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 9, [9]–[11]; see also “The First Book of Nephi,” Reflector [Palmyra, NY], 2 Jan. 1830, 9; “The First Book of Nephi,” Reflector, 13 Jan. 1830, 17; “Book of Mormon,” Reflector, 22 Jan. 1830, 27–28; and Wadsworth, “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon,” 86–91.)
Reflector. Palmyra, NY. 1821–1831.
Wadsworth, Nathaniel Hinckley. “Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon.” BYU Studies 45, no. 3 (2006): 77–99.