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Elmer Ewing collection of Mormon letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4142
Scope and Contents
Collection includes photocopies of correspondence collected by Elmer Ewing written by Mormon pioneers. Includes the letters of Temperance Bond Mack, Christeen Golden Kimball, and Nathan Calhoun Cheney describing their travels to Salt Lake City and other events in Mormon history. One letter by Cheney also includes a description of events surrounding the death of Joseph Smith.
Dates:
1835-1884
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James A. Little diaries and autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3216
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. Little writes about his youth and his participation in the war with Mexico. He tells about his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1849 and his subsequent migration to Utah in the same year. Little writes about his marriage to Mary Jane Lytle in December of 1849 and troubles with Indians in Utah Valley, Utah. Little kept a diary from 1 January 1856 to 12 August 1857 when he served as a missionary for the Mormon...
Dates:
1856-1892
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary Lois Walker Morris autobiography
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1566
Scope and Contents
Materials include photocopies of the typewritten manuscript of Mary Lois Walker Morris's autobiography. The autobiography details events in Mary's life and the life of her family. It provides insight into religion and family life. It also gives information about Quakers in England, conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, emmigration, and polygamy in Utah. Includes an additional transcription made from the typewritten manuscript. Appears to have been written between...
Dates:
approximately 1895-1908
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David Pettigrew autobiography and diary
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 473
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography and diary with a typescript of the item. Pettigrew (apparently also spelled Pettegrew) started his autobiography in 1840. His diary is sporatic and has many gaps. Pettigrew writes about his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1832, his life in Missouri during the persecutions of Mormons there, his experiences in Nauvoo, Illinois, his work as an LDS missionary, his participation in the migration of Mormons from Nauvoo,...
Dates:
1840-1861
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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