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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Alvin Benson missionary diary, 1897-1898

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 8535
Scope and Contents

Materials include Alvin Benson's missionary diary from April 1897 to April 1898. It documents one year of Benson's mission to California and contains thoughts, impressions, events, and descriptions of his mission as well as lists of people he met and contacted. Dated 1897-1898.

Dates: 1897-1898
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8535, Schmid and Topham family collection of Richard Benson, Alvin Benson, and William Richard Smith missionary journals

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