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Copyright Laws And The 1830 Book Of Mormon, Nathanial Hinckley Wadsworth
Copyright Laws And The 1830 Book Of Mormon, Nathanial Hinckley Wadsworth
BYU Studies Quarterly
In the summer of 1829, Joseph Smith completed his translation of the Book of Mormon. One year removed from the harrowing loss of the initial 116 pages of the translation in the summer of 1828, he was determined to not lose this work again, in any sense. On June 11, 1829, Joseph deposited, with the clerk of the Northern District Court of New York, a single printed page that resembled what would become the title page of the 1830 Book of Mormon, in order to secure a copyright in the work. The court clerk, Richard Ray Lansing, generated the official …