Solomon Spalding (also spelled Spaulding; February 20, 1761 – October 20, 1816) was an American author who wrote two related texts: an unfinished manuscript entitled Manuscript Story – Conneaut Creek, and an unpublished historical romance about the lost civilization of the mound builders of North America called Manuscript Found. Whether these texts are distinct is disputed. As none of his work was ever published, the titles are only working titles and thus not fixed. After Spalding's death, a number of individuals suggested that Spalding's work was used as a source by Joseph Smith Jr for the Book of Mormon, a scripture in the Latter Day Saint movement. (From Wikipedia)
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Books about Solomon Spaulding:
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The Origin of the Spaulding Story; With a Short Biography of Dr. P. Hulbert, The Originator of the Same, and Some Testimony Adduced, Showing it to be a Sheer Fabrication, So Far as Its Connection with the Book of Mormon is Concerned (Philadelphia: Brown, Bicking and Guilpert, 1840), by Benjamin Winchester (HTML at solomonspalding.com)- Plain Facts, Shewing the Origin of the Spaulding Story, Concerning the Manuscript Found, and Its Being Transformed into the Book of Mormon, With a Short Biography of Dr. P. Hulbert, The Author of the Said Story (Bedford: C. B. Merry, 1841), by Benjamin Winchester (HTML at solomonspalding.com)
- The Spaulding Story Concerning the Origin of the Book of Mormon, Duly Examined, and Exposed to the Righteous Contempt of a Candid Public (1843 and 1866 editions), by John E. Page (HTML at solomonspalding.com)
- The Myth of the "Manuscript Found", or, The Absurdities of the "Spaulding Story" (Salt Lake City, UT: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1883), by George Reynolds
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The prophet of Palmyra : Mormonism reviewed and examined in the life, character, and career of its founder, from Cumorah hill to Carthage jail and the desert, together with a complete history of the Mormon era in Illinois, and an exhaustive investigation of the Spalding manuscript theory of the origin of Book of Mormon (J.B. Alden, 1890), by Thomas Gregg (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by Solomon Spaulding:
- Spaulding, Solomon, 1761-1816: Manuscript Found: The Complete Original "Spaulding Manuscript" (Provo: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, c1996), ed. by Kent P. Jackson (page images at BYU)
Additional books by Solomon Spaulding in the extended shelves:
- Spaulding, Solomon, 1761-1816: The "manuscript found" : manuscript story (Millenial Star Office, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Spaulding, Solomon, 1761-1816: The manuscript found : manuscript story ... (D. C. Martin, in the 1970s) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Spaulding, Solomon, 1761-1816: Manuscript story. (The Deseret News Company, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Spaulding, Solomon, 1761-1816: New light on Mormonism (Funk & Wagnalls, 1885), also by Ellen E. Dickinson (page images at HathiTrust)
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