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Show latter two categories comprise a considerable majority of the total number of published items, and remain approximately in balance until the middle 1850's, then the materials written by Mormons begin to outnumber those written by non-members. In the 1870's the volume of publication, particularly in category (3) but also in category (4), accelerates to the point that I have not been able to make even a cursory categorization. There is an often voiced opinion that since the 1930's there has been considerable growth in writing by_ members for members. The volume of publication by and about the Mormons has long since reached a rate that requires computer methods to categorize, and then count the items that appear in the various categories. I have included a section for "Entries on Mormonism, the Mormons, and Utah, as Listed in Sab in," A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 29 vols. (1868-1936), even though many of these are listed in Flake, Mormon Bibliography, 1830-1930 (1978), because it is interesting to see what was selected for inclusion in Sabin, because the descriptions tend to be very full, and because it is a useful example of a type of bibliography for the student of history. Although there is now available the Molnar, Author-Title Index to Joseph Sabin's Dictionary of Books Relating to America, 3 vols. (1974), at the time these selections were made it was necessary to proceed laboriously through the 29 vols, of Sabin in search of entries related to a particular subject. We may have missed some titles. For the section on materials since 1930, there has been no XI |