2013-10-28-Facebook-Ardis Parshall-JFSanti-Mormonbookpurchase

• Joseph F. Smith was willing to buy copies of anti-Mormon books from New York in 1915, but with one condition: "Purchase any anti-Mormon works from second hand book stores, where they may be got cheap." -- Ardis on Facebook

• Here's a list of the anti-Mormon books that JFS bought in 1915:

• • Female Life among the Mormons (Ward)
  • Expose of Polygamy in Utah (Mrs. Stenhouse)
  • The Mormon Problem (Lyford)
  • Utah and the Mormons (Ferris)
  • Lives of female Mormons (Evans)
  • The Mormon Prophet (Waite)
  • Life in Utah (Beadle)
  • Tell It All (Stenhouse)
  • Exploration and Survey (Stansbury) -- I wouldn't call this one anti
  • Old and New (?)
  • Mormonism (Hyde)
  • The Conversation of Mormonism (Townshend)

• And what did he pay for this collection, from the used book dealer? A grand total of $8.70. -- Ardis on Facebook

Later comment on same post:

• My sources are all secret. Except for the ones I make up. Oh, okay. I read some letters this morning from Walter P. Monson in New York, who bought the books at JFS's request. - Ardis