Word: manuscript
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Spalding is not a new name in disputes over Mormonism. As early as 1833 one apostate Mormon argued that there were similarities between Smith's scriptures and an unpublished Spalding novel about the origins of the Indians. The missing Spalding manuscript was supposedly filched from a Pittsburgh publishing house by an itinerant preacher who gave the papers to Smith...
...test the authenticity of Smith's manuscript for a book they are preparing, the researchers gave photocopies of sample pages from the Mormon archives and known specimens of Spalding's writing to three handwriting experts: Henry Silver, William Kaye and Howard Doulder. All three have broad credentials for such work (though Silver and Kaye reached opposite conclusions about whether Howard Hughes wrote the so-called Mormon will). Working independently and not knowing about any tie to the Book of Mormon, all three decided that the same man had written both sets of documents...
Even if Smith used Spalding's manuscript, why would Smith have been so foolish as to retain pages of a known manuscript within a work he said was inspired by God? Davis & Co. answer -somewhat lamely-that Smith was so poverty-stricken that he and his aides might have stuck sections of Spalding's manuscript between pages of their own in order to save paper, which was scarce and expensive in those days...
...Chancellor Manuscript, Ludlum...