FootnoteStatement of Matilda Spalding McKinstry to Arthur Deming on November 2, 1886 (Summarized) On pages 184-187 of “The True Origins of Mormonism” (1914), Charles A. Shook summarized evidence that Manuscript Story and Manuscript Found were 2 separate manuscripts:...
FootnoteSome of the witnesses (Hiram Lake, Matilda Spalding, Jason Briggs) who claimed to be familiar with Manuscript Found were also familiar with the Oberlin manuscript. In 1914 Mrs. Hiram Lake, daughter-in-law of Henry Lake, donated two documents to the New York...
FootnoteThe Reorganized Mormon Church published the following false statement in the preface to their 1885 version of “The Manuscript Found”: Herewith we present to the reader the notorious “Manuscript Story” (“Manuscript Found”) of the late Rev. Solomon Spalding....
