Schroeder, A. T. The Origin of the Book of Mormon, Re-Examined in its Relation to Spaulding's "Manuscript Found". Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Ministerial Association, 1901. First Edition. [11382]
Green printed wrappers, small chip bottom right corner of wrapper and first few leaves, 9 x 6 inches, 56 unmarked and darkly toned pages. Stapled pamphlet, with the last few leaves pulling away from the staples; fragile. Good.
Flake 7578. A study of the origins of the Book of Mormon, with the conclusion: "The Book of Mormon is a plagiarism from Spaulding's novel, the 'Manuscript Found,' and is the product of conscious fraud on the part of Sidney Rigdon, Parley Parker Pratt, Joseph Smith and others, which fraud was prompted wholly by love of notoriety and money." p. 56.
"Albert Theodore Schroeder (1864-1953), b. Horicon, Wisconsin; d. Greenwich, Connecticut. Schroeder was a lawyer, author, and a specialist in evolutionary psychology. " He lived in Salt Lake City, and became an expert on the Mormon religion; he attacked such things as polygamy and incest. Schroeder was influential in excluding the Mormon Brigham Roberts from the House of Representatives." - New York Public Library archives online.
