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==Eber D. Howe: "I could better believe that Spaulding wrote it than that Joe Smith saw an angel"==

Eber D. Howe, publisher of the "Spalding theory" of Book of Mormon authorship in ''Mormonism Unvailed'', during an interview in 1884.:
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Because I could better believe that Spaulding wrote it than that Joe Smith saw an angel.<ref>Interview with E.D. Howe, in E.L. Kelley, Public Discussion of the Issues between the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Church of Christ (Disciples), Held in Kirtland, Ohio, Beginning February 12, and Closing March 8, 1884, between E. L. Kelley, of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Clark Braden, of the Church of Christ (St. Louis: Christian Publishing and Smart, 1884), 83.</ref>
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