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Frederick William Chappell diary
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8318
Scope and Contents
Typescript of a diary kept by Chappell during his service in the British Mission. He served primarily in the Manchester Conference. Includes a description of his travels from Utah to England. Transcribed by Dorrell Chappell Vickers, son of Louise Chappell Vickers, the oldest child and only daughter of Frederick William Chappell. Dated 1890-1891.
Dates:
1890-1891
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Chauncy D. Harris interview, Chicago, Illinois
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2945
Scope and Contents
Comments on his early life and on the influence of his father, Franklin S. Harris, president of Brigham Young University (BYU). Also comments on attendance at the following institutions of higher learning: BYU, 1930-1934; University of Chicago, 1933, 1934, and 1937-1939; Oxford University, 1934-1936; London School of Economics, 1936-1937; and Kent State University, 1937. Includes comments on his early interest in geography, some of his teachers at BYU and the University of Chicago, and his...
Dates:
1986; 1986
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Roberta Flake Clayton book drafts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 715
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typescripts of biographies used in Clayton's "Pioneer Women of Arizona," published in 1969, and "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Arizona," published in 1974. Most of the 195 women and 118 men are Mormons who relate their personal experiences in the early settlements of Arizona.
Dates:
1969-1974
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Collection on early Mormon history
Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 954
Scope and Contents
Materials include typescripts of records on early Mormon history. Includes information on Joseph Smith, William Smith, and John Whitmer, and other early Church leaders. Dated 1830-1846.
Dates:
1830-1846
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lyndon W. Cook research collection on Thomas L. Kane
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2221
Scope and Contents
Lyndon W. Cook, a student of LDS Church history and an instructor in history at UVSC, worked for several years gathering materials for what he anticipated would be a complete edition of the papers of Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883). Cook abandoned the project in 1985 and gave his research collection to the BYU Library. Many of the typescripts of Kane's letters and related items were then integrated into the Kane Collection by Dennis Rowley's and the acquisition of a substantially larger Kane...
Dates:
1845-1979
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Matthew and Elva T. Cowley papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1470
Scope and Contents
Holographs, typescripts (some duplicated), printed material and newspaper clippings (photocopies). Contains journals, correspondence, mission papers, speeches and notes, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia concerning Cowley's mission to New Zealand, time as a student in Washington, D.C., his life as a mission president and Apostle, and the development of missionary activity in the South Pacific and Orient. Also included are an autobiography by Elva T. Cowley and Cowley family histories.
Dates:
1914-1980
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Wesley W. Craig autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3066
Scope and Contents
Comments on his ancestry; early life in Cabarton, Cascade, and elsewhere in Idaho; service in the U.S. Navy during the 1940s; conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), 1949; work in the Department of Sociology and School of Social Work at BYU; and professional and religious experiences, including in Guatemala, Peru, Spain, and Venezuela.
Dates:
1990-1998
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William E. Davis diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 59
Scope and Contents
Holograph diaries kept by Davis during his service in the Civil War. Includes brief statments regarding drills, deaths, weather, and daily activities.
Dates:
1862-1865
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Alphonse B. Day diaries
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 159
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries in pencil with a typescript of the items. Day writes about his activities and experiences while emigrating to California using wagons pulled by oxen.
Dates:
1859-1860
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Raymond Dewey memories
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2973
Scope and Contents
Contains histories of author's ancestors, together with poems, genealogy, funeral talks, speeches, and pictures. Includes autobiographical accounts by Nellie L. Dewey, Elijah K. Fuller, Edward M. Thurman, Horace S. Rawson, Violet M. Dewey and J. Raymond Dewey; biographical sketches of Lewis C. Rogerson, Fannie V. Smith, Matilda S. Farnes, George U. Smith, John Cook Dewey, John Cyrus Dewey, S. Annie C. Dewey, Sarah U. Child, Mary Ann G. Perkes, and Jane M. Dean; and a large number of family...
Dates:
1995
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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