We next invite attention to one of the latest versions of the "Spaulding story." It appeared in _Scribner's Magazine_ for August, 1880, and purports to be written by Mrs. Ellen E. Dickenson, a grand-niece of Mr. Spaulding. It is conspicuous for its inexactness, but is valuable as containing the affidavit of Mrs. M. S. McKinstry already considered. Referring to the discovery by Mr. Spaulding of bows and other relics in a mound near his home at Conneaut, Mrs. Dickenson writes: "This discovery suggested to him the subject for a new romance, which he called a translation from some _hieroglyphical writing_ exhumed from the mound. This romance purported to be a history of the peopling of America by the _lost tribes of Israel_, the tribes and their leaders _having very singular names_, among them Mormon, Moroni, Lamanite, Nephi. The romance the author called 'Manuscript Found.' This all occurred in 1812, when to write a book was a distinction, and Mr. Spaulding read his manuscript from time to time to a circle of _admiring friends_. He determined finally to publish it and for that purpose carried it to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to a printer by the name of Patterson. After keeping it awhile, Mr. Patterson returned it, declining to print it. _There was at this time in this printing office a young man named Sidney Rigdon_, who twenty years later figured as a preacher among the Saints." In the above extract we have printed in italics those statements to which we wish to draw special attention.