The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-29

Howe, of gainesville, Ohio (since which
Mr.. Rice informs me he had a stroke,
and was supposed to be on his DEATH
bed); Mr.. A. B. Demming also of
gainesville; Albert D. Hagar, librarian
of the Chicago Historical Society, Chi
cago; and Mrs. Ellen S. Dickinson of
Boston, grand-niece of Solomon Spaul-
ding. Mrs. Dickinson demanded that
the manuscript be forthwith sent to
her or to Mrs. McInstry, from whose
mother it had been stolen by d. P.
Hurlburt.'' She also asserted that she
was writing a book against the
'Mormons,' and desired the manu-
script from which to make extracts,
provided it is the one that Hurlburt
stole which she scarcely thinks is the
one" Mr.. Demming says he does mot
think it is the Manuscript Found" for
it Is rumored that Hurlburt sold it to
the "Mofinons," and they destroyed it.
which he says, ct believe to be true.
He was nevertheless. Slamorous to have
this manuscript sent to =. m lmfne-
diately, for, writes he, 81 dessre to
make extracts from it as I am writing
book, to be entitled The Death-blow
to Mormonism.' Joseph Smith of
the Reorganized church did not ask
for the manuscript for himself, but
that it might be sent to the Chicago
Historical Society, 140 and 142 Dear
born St. Chicago, for preservation.
Mr.. Hagar, secretary or librarian of
said society. desired it also sent there,
and promised to defray the postage or
expressage, and to have it neatly
bound, ETC., etc. But Mr.. E. D. Howe
laid claim to it on the ground that
when he sold his printing esta Enlistment
to his brother, from whom it was turn
ed over to Messrs. Rice & Winchester,
in 1889, the manuscript was inadver-
tently turned over to them with the
office. He further states in his let
ter that the manuscript was left in
his Office by d. P. Hurlburt, pending
efforts to obtain evidence against the
Book of Mormon. Mr.. Rice showed all
these letters which we carefully read
reverend gentleman, wrote two letters,
both of which seemed to SAVIOR of
spirit smarting under the sting of con-
scious imbecility, and reeking with
venom and the bitterness of gall.
Mr.. Rice informed us that his friends,
among them the Rev. Serene E. Bishop
of Honolulu, had advised him not to
allow the "Mormons' to get hold of a
copy of the manuscript. When I ask
ed them for what reason, he replied,
What, indeed?" The old gentleman
had a son in the States who is a min
lister Ito whom Mr.. Demming's letters
We're addressed), and he wrote to make
inquiry respecting the existence of
Messrs. Aaron Wright Oliver Smith
and John n. Miller, who testified to the
identity of the manuscript as Spaul-
ding's writings, and he found them to
have been ''veritable persons. but they
are now all dead This was the state
ment which Mr.. Rice made to u.s. Here
is a copy of the certificate:
THE writings of Solomon Spaulding,
proved by Aaron Wright, oliver Smith,
John n. Miller and others. The tes-
timonies of the above gentlemen are
now in my possession. D. P. Hurl-
burt" CThe signature is written as
here given)
I made another visit to Mr.. Rice a
few weeks ago, and read several more
chapters of the manuscript.
We again took a good look at the
manuscript, which had been returned
to him by Mr.. Hyde, a minister to
whom it had been loaned for a time,
and by whom 1 suspect it was copied,
1 do not know. We counted
the pages and found 1e9 numbered
pages and one and two-thirds pages
not numbered, and two loose sheets
not apparently belonging to the manu-
script, which made in all us; less
pages 1873 and 1874 which are missing.
Mr. Rice said that when he was pub
fishing a newspaper, the Republican
at Cazenovia, New York, he
published very interesting story en-
titled, Manuscript Found and some
ten or fifteen years later. while editing |
the Ohio Star. at Ravenna, Ohio, he !,
this story, which was a |
predicated upon some incl
dents of the Revolutionary War. He
was of the opinion that the name Of
this story by some means had been
COMPOUNDED with Spaulding's manu-
script or writings. and that this is the !
only novel that spaulding ever wrote.