Hi, My guess for "Scarcely a year later" But ... a year later?
"Mormonism has intrigued readers ever since Joseph Smith first published the Book of Mormon in Palmyra, New York, in 1830. Scarcely a year later, the newspaper reporter James Gordon Bennett filed an article with the New York Morning Enquirer and Courier with the opening line ..."
Top answer
scarcely a year later = a very little bit more than a year later.
— Mister Micawber
scarcely a year later = a very little bit more than a year later.
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