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Date: October 30, 2021 04:09PM
B.H. Roberts was a high-ranked CoJCoLdS official in the early 20th Century, and did research into the origins of the BoM. In 1922, according to this Master of Arts in History thesis (U.Nev/Reno, 2019), Roberts circulated a few scholarly papers on the "problematic" origins of the BoM, and held meetings with " a select group of highly educated Mormon men and women outside of church hierarchy."
I've just started reading this thesis, which doesn't cover the Roberts papers themselves (published 1985, "Studies Of the Book of Mormon"), but focuses on the "dozens of people knew about the information contained in Roberts’s studies and that even when hidden and unaddressed, they had a large impact on
Mormon culture and belief."
The matter boils down to: You can lead a horse to knowledge, but there's no telling whether he'll believe it."
https://scholarworks.unr.edu/bitstream/handle/11714/6712/Montez_unr_0139M_13054.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y