Footnotes
Specific measurements of each paper type used and a more detailed physical description of the manuscript can be found in Skousen, Printer’s Manuscript, 30–36.
Skousen, Royal, ed. The Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts. Part 1, Copyright, 1830 Preface, 1 Nephi 1:0–Alma 17:26. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2001.
The outliers are the eighth, seventeenth, nineteenth, and twenty-first gatherings, which are composed of five, three, three, and four sheets, respectively. The gatherings are folded in half, forming twice as many leaves and four times as many pages as there are sheets. The last gathering’s final two leaves (presumably blank) are no longer extant and were probably discarded during or shortly after the printing process.
The only exception to this pattern was when Oliver Cowdery and scribe 2 both wrote on manuscript page 157. Cowdery inscribed the page, and when he was finished, scribe 2 placed the page number at the upper right corner, likely because there was more space for the number there than in the upper left corner. (Book of Mormon, Printer’s Manuscript, ca. Aug. 1829–ca. Jan. 1830, p. 157.)
The first gathering may also have been marked with a signature mark, but the bottom portion of the page is missing from the first leaf, making it impossible to ascertain the existence of a signature mark.
Though it is possible that another individual in the Palmyra print shop marked up portions of the manuscript, the evenness of the ink and consistency of the shape of punctuation and other marks suggest that a single individual, most likely John H. Gilbert, marked up the manuscript in preparation for publication. (See “Mormon Leaders at Their Mecca,” New York Herald, 25 June 1893, 12; see also Skousen, “John Gilbert’s 1892 Account,” 58–72.)
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
Skousen, Royal. “Worthy of Another Look: John Gilbert’s 1892 Account of the 1830 Printing of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon an Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 58–72.
Evidence of these pins comes from the holes they created and the rust marks left by the heads of the pins; the pins themselves are not extant.
Burgess made this observation in a letter he wrote to Israel A. Smith after 1923. A Missouri newspaper observed that the manuscript was “yellow with age, of large, old fashioned, unruled foolscap paper, closely written upon both sides with ink and fastened together in sections with yarn strings.” (Skousen, Printer’s Manuscript, 15; “Mormonism,” Kansas City (MO) Daily Journal, 5 June 1881, [1].)
Skousen, Royal, ed. The Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts. Part 1, Copyright, 1830 Preface, 1 Nephi 1:0–Alma 17:26. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2001.
Kansas City Daily Journal. Kansas City, MO. 1878–1891.
Cannon, Journal, 27 Feb. 1884.
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
Cannon, Journal, 27 Feb. 1884. E. Hobson Tordoff, who conserved the manuscript in the early twentieth century, documented the state of the gatherings of the manuscript and showed that as early as the twentieth century, a little less than half of the manuscript pages were still intact and folded within gatherings. The pages that were bound with yarn were probably the four gatherings that never went to the print shop. The stain from the yarn can still be seen in those four gatherings. (E. Hobson Tordoff, Note, 20 Oct. 1922, Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949, CCLA.)
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949. CCLA.
“Preface,” Book of Mormon, 1837 ed., v.
“Mormonism,” Kansas City (MO) Daily Journal, 5 June 1881, [1].
Kansas City Daily Journal. Kansas City, MO. 1878–1891.
See Lyndon W. Cook, ed., David Whitmer Interviews: A Restoration Witness (Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1991), for a book-length compilation of Whitmer’s reminiscences, experiences, and custodianship of the manuscripts in his possession as reported by visitors and interviewers. Whitmer felt it his sacred duty to be custodian of the text and often welcomed visitors who wished to see it or interview him about it. He told Orson Pratt and Joseph F. Smith, “Oliver [Cowdery] charged me to keep it [the manuscript], and Joseph [Smith] said my Fathers house should ‘keep the Records’ &c. I consider these things sacred and would not part with, nor barter them for money.” (Joseph F. Smith, New York City, NY, to John Taylor et al., [Salt Lake City, Utah Territory], 17 Sept. 1878, draft, Joseph F. Smith, Papers, CHL.)
Smith, Joseph F. Papers, 1854–1918. CHL. MS 1325.
Joseph F. Smith and Orson Pratt pointed out to Whitmer in 1878 that the signatures on the witness pages were copied and not original signatures, whereupon Smith suggested “that perhaps there were two copies of the manuscript, But Mr. Whitmer replied that according to the best of his Knowledge there never was but the one copy.” Following an inspection of the manuscript in 1884, James H. Hart reported a conversation with Whitmer, wherein Hart stated “that it looked very much as though it was the original copy,” going on to explain that “it would in fact take considerable more evidence than I had seen to convince me that it was not the original and only written copy.” Whitmer responded in the affirmative, “I know, positively, that it is so.” (J. F. Smith to J. Taylor et al., 17 Sept. 1878; James H. Hart, “About the Book of Mormon,” Deseret Evening News [Salt Lake City], 25 Mar. 1884, [2].)
Smith, Joseph F. Papers, 1854–1918. CHL. MS 1325.
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
“Mormonism,” Kansas City (MO) Daily Journal, 5 June 1881, [1]; Cannon, Journal, 27 Feb. 1884. One story was told years later of several neighbors of Whitmer who were attempting to steal the manuscript but were frightened away by rattlesnakes. (Israel A. Smith, Letter, [Independence, MO], Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949, CCLA.)
Kansas City Daily Journal. Kansas City, MO. 1878–1891.
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949. CCLA.
“David J. Whitmer Dead,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 29 June 1895, 10; “This Manuscript Is Worth a Fortune,” St. Louis Republic, 10 Nov. 1895, 26; Andrew Jenson et al., “Historical Landmarks,” Deseret Evening News, 17 Sept. 1888, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
St. Louis Republic. St. Louis, MO. 1888–1919.
Sylvia R. Whitmer and Julia A. Schweich to George W. Schweich, Deed of Transfer, Ray Co., MO, Deed Records, 1820–1927, vol. 65, pp. 575–576, 2 July 1895, microfilm 2,444,896, U.S. and Canada Record Collection, FHL; see also “This Manuscript Is Worth a Fortune,” St. Louis Republic, 10 Nov. 1895, 26. Schweich kept the manuscript for at least some of the time in a bank vault in Richmond, Missouri.
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
St. Louis Republic. St. Louis, MO. 1888–1919.
See, for instance, Joseph F. Smith, Salt Lake City, UT, to Samuel Russell Jr., Bern, Switzerland, 19 Mar. 1901, Samuel Russell Sr. Family Papers, 1822–1954, BYU.
Smith, Joseph F. Letter, Salt Lake City, UT, to Samuel Russell Jr., Bern, Switzerland, 19 Mar. 1901. Samuel Russell Sr. Family Papers, 1822–1954. BYU.
George Schweich, Richmond, MO, to O. R. Beardsley, 17 Jan. 1900, Miscellanea, Marie Eccles-Caine Archives of Intermountain Americana, Utah State University Special Collections, Logan; Joseph F. Smith, Salt Lake City, UT, to Samuel Russell Jr., Bern, Switzerland, 19 Mar. 1901, Samuel Russell Sr. Family Papers, 1822–1954, BYU; Brigham, “William Evarts Benjamin,” 9–11; see also Riley, Founder of Mormonism, 102n61.
Schweich, George. Letter, Richmond, MO, to O. R. Beardsley, 17 Jan. 1900. Miscellanea, Marie Eccles-Caine Archives of Intermountain Americana, Utah State University Special Collections, Logan.
Smith, Joseph F. Letter, Salt Lake City, UT, to Samuel Russell Jr., Bern, Switzerland, 19 Mar. 1901. Samuel Russell Sr. Family Papers, 1822–1954. BYU.
Brigham, Clarence S. “William Evarts Benjamin.” In Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. Vol. 50, April 17, 1940–October 16, 1940, 9–11. Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1941.
Riley, I. Woodbridge. The Founder of Mormonism: A Psychological Study of Joseph Smith, Jr. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1902.
Anderson, Diary, 16 May 1907.
Anderson, George Edward. Diary, Apr.–Aug. 1907. George Edward Anderson, Diaries, 1907–1911. Microfilm. CHL.
Joseph F. Smith, Salt Lake City, UT, to Samuel Russell Jr., Bern, Switzerland, 19 Mar. 1901, Samuel Russell Sr. Family Papers, 1822–1954, BYU.
Smith, Joseph F. Letter, Salt Lake City, UT, to Samuel Russell Jr., Bern, Switzerland, 19 Mar. 1901. Samuel Russell Sr. Family Papers, 1822–1954. BYU.
“Minutes of First Presidency,” 24 Apr. 1902, CCLA; “Minutes of General Conference,” Saints’ Herald, 1904, supplement, 689; Israel A. Smith, “A ‘Sealed’ Book,” Saints’ Herald, 28 Feb. 1942, 262–263; Walter W. Smith, Independence, MO, to S. A. Burgess, Independence, MO, 15 Apr. 1926, J. F. Curtis, Papers, CCLA; “Book of Mormon Manuscript,” Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949, CCLA.
“Minutes of First Presidency, March 1898 to September 1907, Record No. 1.” CCLA.
Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.
Curtis, J. F. Papers. CCLA.
Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949. CCLA.
Frederick M. Smith, Lamoni, IA, to Oscar W. Newton, Salt Lake City, UT, 20 June 1907, Subject Folder Collection, Adam-ondi-Ahman to Church Literature, CCLA; Elbert A. Smith, [Independence, MO], to G. H. Elmer, Cove, OR, 27 Sept. 1957, Subject Folder Collection, Book of Mormon, CCLA; Romig, “Community of Christ Church Possession of Book of Mormon Printer’s Manuscript,” 3; Romig, “Printer’s Manuscript,” 34.
Smith, Frederick M. Letter, Lamoni, IA, to Oscar W. Newton, Salt Lake City, UT, 20 June 1907. Subject Folder Collection, Adam-ondi-Ahman to Church Literature. CCLA.
Smith, Elbert A. Letter, [Independence, MO], to G. H. Elmer, Cove, OR, 27 Sept. 1957. Subject Folder Collection, Book of Mormon. CCLA.
Romig, Ronald E. “Community of Christ Church Possession of Book of Mormon Printer’s Manuscript.” Unpublished report, last modified 15 May 2007. CCLA. Copy in editors’ possession.
Romig, Ronald E. “The Printer’s Manuscript.” In Uncovering the Original Text of the Book of Mormon: History and Findings of the Critical Text Project, edited by M. Gerald Bradford and Alison V. P. Coutts, 32–38. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 2002.
Letter to Frederick M. Smith, [Independence, MO], 16 May 1929, Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949, CCLA; see also Israel A. Smith, Letter, [Independence, MO], Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949, CCLA. Israel A. Smith described the container of the manuscript: “Its now in a fire proof holder, that slides tight into another; and that into a third. Then we ke[e]p it in a fire proof vauly [vault].”
Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949. CCLA.
E. Hobson Tordoff, Berkeley, CA, to RLDS Presiding Bishopric, Independence, MO, 20 Feb. 1924, Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949, CCLA; Romig, “Community of Christ Church Possession of Book of Mormon Printer’s Manuscript,” 2.
Archaeology: Book of Mormon Manuscript Correspondence and Clippings, 1899–1949. CCLA.
Romig, Ronald E. “Community of Christ Church Possession of Book of Mormon Printer’s Manuscript.” Unpublished report, last modified 15 May 2007. CCLA. Copy in editors’ possession.
Romig, “Community of Christ Church Possession of Book of Mormon Printer’s Manuscript,” 3, 5, 8–9.
Romig, Ronald E. “Community of Christ Church Possession of Book of Mormon Printer’s Manuscript.” Unpublished report, last modified 15 May 2007. CCLA. Copy in editors’ possession.
Romig, “Community of Christ Church Possession of Book of Mormon Printer’s Manuscript,” 8.
Romig, Ronald E. “Community of Christ Church Possession of Book of Mormon Printer’s Manuscript.” Unpublished report, last modified 15 May 2007. CCLA. Copy in editors’ possession.
Footnotes
“Mormonism,” Kansas City (MO) Daily Journal, 5 June 1881, [1]; Whitmer, Address to All Believers in Christ, 32; JS History, vol. A-1, 21–22, 34; Cannon, Journal, 27 Feb. 1884.
Kansas City Daily Journal. Kansas City, MO. 1878–1891.
Whitmer, David. An Address to All Believers in Christ. Richmond, MO: By the author, 1887.
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
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.
Tucker, Origin, Rise, and Progress of Mormonism, 52; John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL. Gilbert recalled that Harris was hesitant to print the book in Rochester because that would mean paying for someone to stay in Rochester and visit Palmyra two or three times per week to retrieve the manuscript as scribes continued to copy the text.
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.
John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL; see also Historical Introduction to Book of Mormon Manuscript Excerpt, ca. June 1829 [1 Nephi 2:2b–3:18a]; and Historical Introduction to Revelation, ca. Summer 1829 [D&C 19].
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
Martin Harris to Egbert B. Grandin, Indenture, 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; John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL; see also Historical Introduction to Book of Mormon Manuscript Excerpt, ca. June 1829 [1 Nephi 2:2b–3:18a]; and Historical Introduction to Revelation, ca. Summer 1829 [D&C 19].
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
Revelation, July 1828 [D&C 3].
Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 9, [2].
Lucy Mack Smith, History, 1844–1845, bk. 9, [2].
Book of Mormon, Printer’s Manuscript, ca. Aug. 1829–ca. Jan. 1830, pp. 1–144 [Mosiah 18:4].
Book of Mormon, Printer’s Manuscript, ca. Aug. 1829–ca. Jan. 1830, pp. 145–168 [Mosiah 18:4–29:39].
Book of Mormon, Printer’s Manuscript, ca. Aug. 1829–ca. Jan. 1830, pp. 169–188 [Mosiah 29:39–Alma 8:16].
Book of Mormon, Printer’s Manuscript, ca. Aug. 1829–ca. Jan. 1830, pp. 189–392 [3 Nephi 18:30].
Book of Mormon, Printer’s Manuscript, ca. Aug. 1829–ca. Jan. 1830, pp. 393–428 [Mormon 9:37].
Skousen, “Oliver Cowdery as Book of Mormon Scribe,” 54–56.
Skousen, Royal. “Oliver Cowdery as Book of Mormon Scribe.” In Days Never to Be Forgotten: Oliver Cowdery, edited by Alexander L. Baugh, 51–72. Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2009.
Martin Harris to Egbert B. Grandin, Indenture, 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].
U.S. and Canada Record Collection. FHL.
“Mormon Leaders at Their Mecca,” New York Herald, 25 June 1893, 12. Grandin considered Harris’s 25 August 1829 mortgage to be payment for the printing. (See Historical Introduction to Revelation, ca. Summer 1829 [D&C 19].)
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
If Grandin began his trip to New York City after 25 August 1829, he would not have returned until several weeks later.
In a letter to JS, Oliver Cowdery wrote, “I have Just got to alma commandment to his Son in coppyinng the manscrip.” In the book of Alma, Alma the younger gave instruction and counsel to his three sons. This instruction begins on page 261 of the printer’s manuscript. (Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 6 Nov. 1829; Book of Mormon, Printer’s Manuscript, ca. Aug. 1829–ca. Jan. 1830, pp. 261–274 [Alma 36–42].)
“Book of Mormon,” Reflector (Palmyra, NY), 22 Jan. 1830, 27–28; see also Book of Mormon, Printer’s Manuscript, ca. Aug. 1829–ca. Jan. 1830, pp. 276–277 [Alma 43:22–40]. Cole, who used Grandin’s printing equipment on evenings and Sundays to publish his newspaper, first published extracts from the Book of Mormon in his 2 January and 13 January issues. Upon discovering Cole’s pirated printing of the Book of Mormon, Oliver Cowdery, Hyrum Smith, and others sent for JS who, according to later reminiscences, quickly returned to Palmyra from Harmony, Pennsylvania, and confronted Cole, who agreed to cease publication. No excerpts appeared in the Reflector after 22 January. (“The First Book of Nephi,” Reflector [Palmyra, NY], 2 Jan. 1830, 9; “The First Book of Nephi,” Reflector [Palmyra, NY], 13 Jan. 1830, 17; see also JSP, D1:27–28; and Historical Introduction to Letter from Oliver Cowdery, 28 Dec. 1829.)
Reflector. Palmyra, NY. 1821–1831.
JSP, D1 / MacKay, Michael Hubbard, Gerrit J. Dirkmaat, Grant Underwood, Robert J. Woodford, and William G. Hartley, eds. Documents, Volume 1: July 1828–June 1831. Vol. 1 of the Document series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman. Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2013.
In five instances, Cole forgot to add a space when he moved a word at the end of one line next to a word at the beginning of the next line. This mistake indicates the type used by Cole in his newspaper was rearranged by Cole from the type used in the 1830 printing. Cole had to introduce or remove end-of-line hyphens to fit the narrower columns of his newspaper.
While this rushed effort may indicate the scribes had fallen behind in their copying, it is possible that the pace of copying accelerated because early church members needed the printer’s manuscript to obtain a copyright for the Book of Mormon in Canada. (See Revelation, ca. Early 1830; see also Skousen, “Why Was One Sixth of the 1830 Book of Mormon Set from the Original Manuscript?,” 93–103.)
Skousen, Royal. “Why Was One Sixth of the 1830 Book of Mormon Set from the Original Manuscript?” Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture 2 (2012): 93–103.
“Mormon Leaders at Their Mecca,” New York Herald, 25 June 1893, 12. Before standard measurements of type size, names were used for sizes. “Small pica” corresponds roughly to 11-point size type. (See Pasko, American Dictionary of Printing, 521–522, as excerpted in Rummonds, Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices, 1:234.)
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
Pasko, Wesley Washington. American Dictionary of Printing and Bookmaking, Containing a History of These Arts in Europe and America, with Definitions of Technical Terms and Biographical Sketches. New York: Howard Lockwood, 1894. As excerpted in Richard-Gabriel Rummonds, Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress, 2 vols. (New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004).
John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL. Some punctuation appears to have been added in ink when Gilbert took the manuscript home for several nights to punctuate the Isaiah excerpts with the help of his King James Version of the Bible. Most of the punctuation added by Gilbert, however, was inscribed in pencil—probably in the print shop. (See Skousen, “John Gilbert’s 1892 Account,” 63–67.)
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
Skousen, Royal. “Worthy of Another Look: John Gilbert’s 1892 Account of the 1830 Printing of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon an Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 58–72.
John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL; see also “Mormon Leaders at Their Mecca,” New York Herald, 25 June 1893, 12.
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
New York Herald. New York City. 1835–1924.
See Skousen, “John Gilbert’s 1892 Account,” 63.
Skousen, Royal. “Worthy of Another Look: John Gilbert’s 1892 Account of the 1830 Printing of the Book of Mormon.” Journal of the Book of Mormon an Other Restoration Scripture 21, no. 2 (2012): 58–72.
Andrew Jenson et al., “The Hill Cumorah,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 11 Oct. 1888, [2].
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
John H. Gilbert, Palmyra, NY, to James T. Cobb, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 10 Feb. 1879, in Theodore Schroeder Papers . . . Relating to Mormonism; Andrew Jenson et al., “The Hill Cumorah,” Deseret Evening News (Salt Lake City), 11 Oct. 1888, [2].
Gilbert, John H. Letter, Palmyra, NY, to James T. Cobb, Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, 10 Feb. 1879. Theodore Schroeder Papers: Corres., Writings and Printed Ephemera Relating to Mormonism. Microfilm. New York: New York Public Library Photographic Service, 1986. Copy at CHL.
Deseret News. Salt Lake City. 1850–.
“Cowdery held and looked over the manuscript when most of the proofs were read. Martin Harris once or twice, and Hyrum Smith once.” Gilbert further recalled that “but very little punctuation was altered in proof-reading.” (John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL.)
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL.
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL.
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
John H. Gilbert, Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892, photocopy, CHL; Wayne County (NY) Journal, 3 May 1883, in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents, 2:545n10.
Gilbert, John H. Memorandum, 8 Sept. 1892. Photocopy. CHL. MS 9223.
Vogel, Dan, ed. Early Mormon Documents. 5 vols. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1996–2003.
“Preface,” Book of Mormon, 1837 ed., [v].
Skousen, Printer’s Manuscript, 18.
Skousen, Royal, ed. The Printer’s Manuscript of the Book of Mormon: Typographical Facsimile of the Entire Text in Two Parts. Part 1, Copyright, 1830 Preface, 1 Nephi 1:0–Alma 17:26. Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, Brigham Young University, 2001.
“Mormonism,” Kansas City (MO) Daily Journal, 5 June 1881, [1].
Kansas City Daily Journal. Kansas City, MO. 1878–1891.
See, for example, Cannon, Journal, 27 Feb. 1884; and Stevenson, Journal, 2 Jan. 1887.
Cannon, George Q. Journals, 1855–1864, 1872–1901. CHL. CR 850 1.
Stevenson, Edward. Journals, 1852–1896. Edward Stevenson, Collection, 1849–1922. CHL. MS 4806, boxes 1–4.
“Book of Mormon Committee Report,” Saints’ Herald, 23 Aug. 1884, 545–548.
Saints’ Herald. Independence, MO. 1860–.
Skousen, Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text, 741.
Skousen, Royal, ed. The Book of Mormon: The Earliest Text. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.
TEXT: Pilcrow, added by Oliver Cowdery, corresponds to a new paragraph on page 190 of the 1830 edition.
1830: “accusation”.
TEXT: “I” added by the compositor, or possibly inserted by an unidentified scribe.
TEXT: Pilcrow, added by Oliver Cowdery, corresponds to a new paragraph on page 190 of the 1830 edition.
TEXT: Pilcrow, added by Oliver Cowdery, corresponds to a new paragraph on page 190 of the 1830 edition.
1837 omits “& bound him”.
1837 omits “the pains that I do suffer”.
TEXT: Pilcrow, added by Oliver Cowdery, corresponds to a new paragraph on page 191 of the 1830 edition.
TEXT: Pilcrow, added by Oliver Cowdery, does not correspond to a new paragraph in the 1830 edition.
TEXT: Red ink smear appears after “having”.