FootnoteLorenzo Saunders to Thomas Gregg (January 28, 1885): “Smith and Rigdon had an intimacy but it was very secret and still and there was a mediator between them and that was Cowdery. The [Spalding] manuscript was stolen by Rigdon and modelled over by him and then...
FootnoteHistory of the Church Vol.1 Chapter 3. [Jan. 1827 – Mar. 1829] http://www.boap.org/LDS/History/HTMLHistory/v1c3history.html Cited in An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith, ed. Scott Faulring (Salt lake City: Signature Books,...