Belle S. Spafford letters
Scope and Contents
Letters to Ethel Taylor Sessions, Belle's friend. The first item is dated 12 Nov. 1937. The rest are from the 1950-1980 timeframe. Also included are newsclippings regarding Spafford, several of her talks, and one essay by an unidentified author. The letters deal largely with personal matters.
Dates
- Creation: 1937-1980
Creator
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 Letters must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Civic and Mormon Church leader. For the Mormon Church, she served on the Relief Society General Board for eight years starting in 1935, as the general Relief Society president for twenty-nine years starting in 1945, and as a member of the board of trustees of the Church School System. She seved on the National Council of Women for fifty-two years, where she held many positions including that of president during the years of 1968-9.
Extent
1 box (0.5 linear ft.) : handwritten
Language of Materials
English
Other Finding Aids
File-level inventory available online. http://files.lib.byu.edu/ead/XML/MSS1584.xml
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated; Delemme Roge Taylor; 1987.
Appraisal
Utah and the American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (20th century Western & Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.VII, 2007).
Subject
- Relief Society (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) (Organization)
- Sessions, Ethel Taylor (Person)
- National Council of Women of the United States (Organization)
- Spafford, Belle S. (Belle Smith), 1895-1982 -- Correspondence (Person)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Register of Belle S. Spafford letters
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Garrett Schroath
- Date
- 2011 March 15
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States