Eber Howe in Mormonism Unvailed (1834):
Nahum Howard (1833): “He told me that he intended to get his writings published in Pittsburgh, and he thought that in one century from that time, it would be believed as much as any other history.”
John Miller (1833): “He said that he designed it as a historical novel, and that in after years it would be believed by many people as much as the history of England.”