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I'm trying to put together a useful list of the prominent
magazine articles devoted to Mormonism, that were
published in the U.S. and U.K., c. 1840-1860.

I can find an incomplete list in Bancroft's "Utah;" but I
seem to recall some BYU Studies article devoted entirely
to mid-19th century periodical reports on the Mormons.

Anybody recall where such a detailed list was offered?

UD

Uncle Dale wrote:I'm trying to put together a useful list of the prominent
magazine articles devoted to Mormonism, that were
published in the U.S. and U.K., c. 1840-1860.

I can find an incomplete list in Bancroft's "Utah;" but I
seem to recall some BYU Studies article devoted entirely
to mid-19th century periodical reports on the Mormons.

Anybody recall where such a detailed list was offered?

UD

Here are a few that I discovered last week --


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As I locate more, I'll upload the texts to the web, in a format easier
to access than some of the dedicated old books/articles archives on the web.

UD

UD,

I would like to look at more of those magazines. Are they available online to look at? I realize there may be a lot so maybe just a couple of places to start.

Thanks

Fence Sitter wrote:UD,

I would like to look at more of those magazines. Are they available online to look at? I realize there may be a lot so maybe just a couple of places to start.

Thanks

Here's where I've been posting lately --

http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/ ... 50mag1.htm

I have about a dozen more 1850s magazine articles to upload. But
what I really am hoping to find are a bunch from the 1840s.

By examining various library on-line catalogs, and doing searches at
Google Books and archive.org, I've added a few more items to what
I already had in my filing cabinets --- but I doubt that I've even
found half of the stuff that was published.

Most of the articles' contents are repetitive -- they just copy from
one another, as the years go by. But every now and then, I stumble
across an item containing unique historical material -- like this:



http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1840s/1840mag1.htm#1845a

I'd like to uncover a few more of that sort of report/

UD

I have nothing to offer in the way of assistance, but I'd like to thank you for making this information available.

I'll add my thanks Uncle Dale. I find myself at your websites quite often. Your collection of early documents related to Mormonism is extensive and extremely helpful to my own meager private studies!!

I hope that all these records can stay on an open forum. Would hate for them to be purchased and then hidden to all except scholarly eyes..

Mary

Corpsegrinder wrote:I have nothing to offer in the way of assistance, but I'd like to thank you for making this information available.

Agreed.

Mary wrote:I'll add my thanks Uncle Dale. I find myself at your websites quite often. Your collection of early documents related to Mormonism is extensive and extremely helpful to my own meager private studies!!

I hope that all these records can stay on an open forum. Would hate for them to be purchased and then hidden to all except scholarly eyes..

Mary

I've added all the rest of the 1840s articles from my files. Hopefully
somebody will eventually help me locate anything important that
I'm missing.

The first substantial magazine report on the Mormons was printed
in an 1841 London magazine -- The Athenaeum:


http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1840s/1840mag1.htm#Athen

Parley P. Pratt noticed this attack on his religion, and responded:


http://www.olivercowdery.com/smithhome/1840s/1840mag1.htm#Star02

I don't think Pratt did a very good job defending Smith & Mormonism.
Mostly, he just yelled "liars! -- liars!" over and over again.

It's strange that he bothered to refute the money-digging charges.
He did so in a round-about sort of way, but his message seems to
have been: "Smith never dug for money; and even if he did, it's
OK, because other people do it also."

Pratt took little pains to refute the charges against Sidney Rigdon,
in the controversy over Book of Mormon origins. He seems to have
conveyed the idea that it would have been OK for Rigdon to have
SEEN Spalding's writings, just so long as he did not BORROW them.

At any rate, this 1841 journalistic exchange in England set the
stage for subsequent magazine articles on the Mormons. One
report borrowed from another -- until, by the mid-1850s, they
all sounded about the same.

I'm still working on the 1850s magazine article texts. I have a
bunch of them -- but most are not worth uploading to the web.
I'll try sort out a few more and post them in a day or so.

UD

I am overjoyed to discover that Uncle Dale is still hard at it.

Kishkumen wrote:I am overjoyed to discover that Uncle Dale is still hard at it.

He accomplishes more before breakfast than I've accomplished in 26 years.