1850-11-19-New York Tribune-Author of the Mormon Bible

Author of the Mormon Bible

New York Tribune, 19 November 1850, p. 7

AUTHOR OF THE MORMON BIBLE.—The New England Puritan states that a public meeting lately held in Cherry Valley Judge Campbell said:

"Rev. Solomon Spaulding, one of the earliest preceptors of the Academy of Cherry Valley, was the actual composer of most of what is known as the Mormon Bible. He wrote it during a period of delicate health to beguile some of his weary hours, and also with a design to offer it for publication as a romance. Dr. Robert Campbell, late of Cherry Valley, and foster father of the first Mrs. Grant, of the Nestorian mission, calling some years since upon Mr. Spaulding, had the manuscript of this notable book to be shown to him, and was also informed by Mr. Spaulding that he had hopes of reaping some pecuniary advantage from it for himself and family. Mr. Spaulding has been dead for some years, though it is believed that his wife is still living in the Untied States. How it passed from the possession of his family into the hands of Joe Smith it is probable that Mrs. Spaulding could tell."