B. H. Roberts thinks research on Ethan Smith and View of the Hebrews would be helpful to future apologists.
B.H. Roberts, Letter to Heber J. Grant and Counsellors, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and the First Concil of the Seventy, October 24, 1927, Box 16, Folder 9, B.H. Roberts Papers, Marriott Special Collections.
Such a question as that may possible arise some day, and if it does, it would be greatly to the advantage of our future Defenders of the Faith, if they had in hand a thorough digest of the subject matter. I submit it to you and if you are sufficiently interested you may be submit it to others of your Council. Let me say also, that the Parallel that I send to you is not one fourth part of what can be presented in this form, and the unpresented part is quite as stricking [sic] as this that I submit.