8/7/2023 0 Comments Book of mormon manuscriptThe church obviously disagreed with Kaye and so did the Tanners. William Kaye never changed his mind and insisted to the day he died that the unidentified scribe pages were in Spalding's handwriting. We were approached by Doulder a few days later and when we did not agree to do something for him, he also publicly changed his mind. Either then very next day or shortly afterward, he called a press conference and told the press that he would not testify on our behalf and withdrew from the case. Silver went on at great lengths initially about how Spalding had to be the scribe, that is until one day when Silver had been visited by some gentlemen who scared the living daylights out of him. I would say that he was equal in experience and expertise in handwriting analysis to Kaye, but that is my opinion. He not only gave a detailed report on the writing similarities but also gave a detailed report on the physical condition of Spalding without ever having done any prior research on Spalding's deteriorating physical condition. I have the original copies of his reports. Silver was the first one hired and at first he was the most adamant about the scribe pages being in Spalding's handwriting. Henry Silver and Howard Doulder were the other two experts on the case. First of all, and not to sound nit-picky, the expert's name was William Kaye, and he was one of three handwriting experts that Davis et al hired to look at the unidentified scribe pages. Quite a magician - that Spalding - writing out D&C sections in 1815.įirst of all, my name is Art Vanick and I believe that I can shed a little light on this subject, since I worked with Howard Davis, Wayne Cowdrey, and Donald Scales on their 1977 book. The handwriting purported to be Spalding's, in the Dictated Book of Mormon manuscript,īears a superficial resemblance to his penmanship - but it bears an even CLOSER Mormon scribes would fill out in 1828-29. He went so far as to inscribe headings at the top of blank pages, which Knew exactly what was going to be written upon the blank portions of his folded In order for this half-baked theory to work out correctly, the magician Spalding Occasional headings at the tops of pages written out by known 1829 scribes Not only occurs in the body of these particular pages - it also occurs as The handwriting purported to be Spalding's, But that would notĪccount for yet another factor. We might guess that Spalding had written out his set of pages - startingĪnd stopping in mid-page - in a pile of signatures that he created beforeġ816, and somehow came into Joseph Smith's possession. So, how would Spalding's handwriting from before 1816 (when he died)Ĭome to exist within the signatures of a Book of Mormon manuscript The pages in 1st Nephi, purportedly in his handwriting, occur in long,įolded signatures of multiple sheets of the same paper - the same paperĪs holds the handwriting of known scribes for the Book of Mormon. If true, then Solomon Spalding must have been quite a magician. If it were true, I think I'd have heard it sooner: I had never heard this story until today, and I can hardly believe it.
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