Includes John Lyon correspondence, 1849-1880: ALS to editor of Kilmarnock Standard, December 22, 1877; ALS to friend named Wardrobe, February 28, 1878; ALS from a Lyon (presumably John) telling about a daytime vision, July 24, 1876; ALS by John McDonald (Pastor in Scotland) to Elder Omas Lyon, an endorsement, April 20, 1853; ALS by John Lyon to Janet Lyon, September 24, 1880; ALS by John Lyon to Levi Richards, 1857, 1849 (fragments) and others; Letter of appointment to Thomas Lyon, April 11, 1853; DS letter from Franklin D. Richards to Thomas Lyon, January 10, 1855. Ninety pages of poems and epitaphs and about thirty five pages of stories, all holographs of John Lyon, including: ALS to Eliza R. Snow, no date; ALS to Vern Willis, 1857. Eulogy of W. W. Phelps, no date; Song, "The Laboring Mans Story," no date; Song, "The Falls of Clyde," approximately 1852. Original newspaper clipping of one of John Lyon's published poems, "The Spirit of Poetry," no date'; One poem, "Baptism for the Dead," September 16, 1867. Story, "Precept and Example," January 10, 1880.