Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith stored his manuscript in the cornerstone of a house in Nauvoo, Ill. Three years later, in 1844, he was murdered by a mob. The house was torn down in 1882 and the manuscript scattered, but a few sections were recovered and placed in the church's Salt Lake City archives. Among them is one 20-page fragment of which twelve pages were written by a single, but unknown, hand...
Howard Davis, 33, and three other freelance researchers, one of them distantly related to a Smith scribe, now say they have proved that the unattributed twelve pages were actually pilfered from a manuscript by Solomon Spalding, a Congregational minister and sometime novelist who died...
...this same Fowler was also a devoted family man who remained married to the same patient and adoring woman all his life and who raised a family that cherished him. When a friend judged his biography of a notorious Denver madam too indelicate, Fowler retrieved the manuscript from an astonished publisher and burned it. When he died in 1960, a convert to Roman Catholicism, Fowler was the friend of countless priests and prelates...
...Chancellor Manuscript, Ludlum...
...Chancellor Manuscript, Ludlum...