# Whitmer corpus manifest

| File | Title | Date | Words | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| address_to_all_believers_1887.txt | An Address to All Believers in Christ | 1887 | 31,302 | https://archive.utlm.org/onlinebooks/address1.htm (parts 1-5) | High (self-published pamphlet under his own name) |

## Notes and caveats
- Author: David Whitmer (1805-1888), Richmond, Missouri. His own pamphlet, "By a Witness to the Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon."
- **Date caveat (important):** written in 1887, 57 years after the Book of Mormon (1830) and near the end of Whitmer's life. Style drifts over a lifetime; this late date is a known limitation for comparison against 1820s-30s texts.
- Source: human transcription at Utah Lighthouse Ministry (archive.utlm.org), parts 1-5, chosen over the archive.org OCR (https://archive.org/details/addresstoallbeli00whit, fetched and compared: OCR shows scanning errors such as "Tlie", "poh'gamy", split hyphenation) because OCR noise directly corrupts stylometric features.
- Cleaning: site navigation, page markers ([p. N]/"page N"), and headings removed; paragraphs split by page breaks re-joined; all double-quoted matter stripped (Book of Mormon, Bible, and Doctrine & Covenants quotations, including multi-paragraph quote continuations); scripture/section citations and citation-only paragraphs removed. Whitmer's own parenthetical commentary retained.
- The pamphlet reprints Whitmer's own 1881 proclamation -- retained as his authorship. No embedded letters/statements by other persons were detected outside quoted (stripped) spans.
- Word count above is the cleaned text; ~12,600 words (mostly quotations) were stripped from the ~44,000-word transcription.
