Ora Pate Stewart collection of Adell Palmer drawings, approximately 1959

Sub-Series — Carton: 8, Folder: 4

Identifier: MSS 6046 Series 3 Sub-Series 1

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Scope and Contents

Contains proposed illustrations for Stewart's books. Pictures are done in an unknown medium by the artist Adele Palmer. Palmer also includes suggestions on the back of the drawings concerning which poems or stories to which the pictures should be adjacent. Materials dated from approximately 1959.

Dates

approximately 1959

Creator

Stewart, Ora Pate, 1910-1990 (collector, Person)
Palmer, Adell Reese, 1917-2004 (creator, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Ora Pate Stewart papers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.

Other than the incorporation of fair-use excerpts into published scholarly work, no part of the Ora Pate Stewart Archives may be published without the prior written approval Ora Pate Stewart's family.

Biographical History

Ora Pate Stewart (1910-1990) was an accomplished Mormon author.

Ora Pate Stewart was born August 23, 1910 in Teton Basin, Idaho, to Ezra Greenwood and Ada Rosella Sharp Pate. She married Robert W. Stewart on October 13, 1935 in Ann Arbor, Michigan (later solemnized in the Logan temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint). Her husband was in the Air Force and they lived in 38 states during his career. They had four sons and two daughters together. Her writing career began very young, as she wrote her first song at age four, story at age seven, verses at age nine, and published at age ten. During her life she wrote twenty-nine books, fourteen of which became bestsellers, four poetry books, and composed more than two-hundred pieces of music. As if this does not attest to her ability as an accomplished writer, her books have been translated into as many as seventeen languages. She received many awards and honors, including (but not limited to): Best Book in 1946; first runner-up in California Mother of the Year; first woman invited to speak at the Westminster Abbey; she was honored at the White House by four different presidents; she served as the Biblical advisor to Cecil B. DeMille on the Ten Commandments; and received seven honorary doctorates. As an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints she served three ecclesiastical missions in the Eastern United States, England, and Michigan. She died February 10, 1990 and was interred in the Provo City Cemetery.

Biographical History

Adell Reese Palmer (1917-2004) was a Mormon artist, writer, and poet in Utah.

Adell Reese was born on April 29, 1917 in Salt Lake City, Utah to Chester W. Reese and Edith Johnson. She married Robert Eugene Palmer in the Salt Lake Temple on June 25, 1935. A writer and illustrator, she was a member of the National League of American Pen Women. Palmer died on September 13, 2004.