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Sketch of the life of Solomon Spaulding and his authorship of a romance which he called "The manuscript found"

Following the fate of "The manuscript found" from the year 1816 to 1834

Sketch of Joseph Smith's early life ; The printing of the "Book of Mormon"

Sketch of Sidney Rigdon ; Interview with General and Mrs. Garfield, at Mentor ; Description of the Mormon temple at Kirtland, Ohio

Interview with D. P. Hurlburt, at Gibsonburg, Ohio, and with E. D. Howe, at Painesville, Ohio, in 1880

Visit to Conneaut, Ohio in 1880 ; Reminiscences of Rev. S. Spaulding and the First Mormon Conference, in 1834

The Mormons in Missouri The Mormons at Nauvoo ; Description of the temple ; The death of the prophet

Brigham Young's election to the presidency ; Expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo, in 1846

The early political situation of the Mormons in "the land of the honey bee" ; The mountain meadow butchery ; The influence of the Mormons over the Indians

Polygamy in Utah ; The granting of woman's suffrage in 1871 ; The Edmunds' bill ; Sketch of Brigham Young

John Taylor elected as successor to the second prophet ; The trial of Rudger Clawson, Jr., for bigamy ; Salt Lake City

its beautiful location ; The tabernacle and the public buildings ; Mormon conferences ; The freedom of the ballot in Utah ; The present generation of Mormons ; Predictions regarding the future of Mormonism ; Far-seeing Mormons preparing a rendezvous for the victims of the Edmunds' Law

The doctrines of Mormonism ; Hierarchical organization ; The "Book of Mormon" ; Church polity ; The faith of the latter-day saints ; Their modes of worship

The Josephites ; Epitome of the faith and doctrines of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints ; David Whitmer ; The debate at Kirtland, Ohio, in 1884, concerning the "Book of Mormon" ; The revelation on celestial marriage given to Joseph Smith in 1843 Appendix: 1. Mrs. Matilda Spaulding McKintry's statement regarding "The manuscript found"

2. Letter from Joseph Miller, of Amity, Pennsylvania

3. Mrs. Ann Treadwell Redfield's statement

4. Statement of John Spaulding

5. Henry Lake's statement

6. Copy of George Clark's letters

7. Oscar Kellogg's statement

8. Hurlburt's statement

9. Author's letter from Palmyra

10. Statement of J. W. Gilbert, sent to the author by Hon. Diedrich Villers, Jr., withe letter from the Rev. Diedrich Villers, and statement by the same

11. [Statement] written by R. Patterson, of the Presbyterian Banner, Pittsburg, an extract from a letter written to him by Mr. Rudolph, in 1881, to Mrs. Dickinson

12. Author's visit to Mentor, Ohio

13. John Spaulding's statement

14. Hiram Lakes' and Lorin Gould's statements

15. [Letter from Mrs. Urania Haviland]

16. [Letter from E. D. Howe] Copied by Hurlburt's permission

17. Statement of D. P. Hurlburt

18. Mr. Thurlow Weed's statement

19. Statement by J. L. Howgate, formerly of Wayne County, New York, copied from the Salt Lake Tribune

20. Letter from E. S. Gilbert, giving some incidents of early Mormonism

21. Statement of Oliver Smith, found in an old book in the Astor Library

22. [Statement by Rev. N. C. Lewis]

23. [Letter from Alice Grey Cowan]

24. Extracts from an old book on Mormonism found at the Astor Library

25. Testimony of an army officer

26. [Letter from W. H. Rice of Addison, Steuben County, New York]

27. Copy of the title-page of the original edition of the "Book of Mormon" [described by Joseph Smith, Junior ; and, description of Camp Douglas, with prediction of civil war in Utah]