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...Thorn Birds, McCullough (1 last week) 2-The Crash of '79, Erdman (2) 3-Condominium, MacDonald (5) 4-Falconer, Cheever (4) 5-Trinity, Uris (6) 6-Oliver's Story, Segal (3) 7-The Chancellor Manuscript, Ludlum (7) 8-Illusions, Bach (8) 9-The Rich Are Different, Howatch 10-Full Disclosure, Safire
...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...