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Harry Butler diaries

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1554
Scope and Contents

Holograph diaries for the years 1955-1959 and 1964 contained in five small notebooks. The items are short and list daily activities. The author probably lived in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1955-1964

Edwin Smith Hinckley papers

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 352
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, speeches, reports, and biographies. These materials relate to Hinckley's work at Brigham Young University as a faculty member and on the Alumni Association Board of Directors, as superintendent of the Utah State Industrial School, and as secretary of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. The biographies are eulogies given by Hinckley's friends and associates.

Dates: 1892-1962

Emma McDowell Jacobsen histories

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 520
Scope and Contents

Typewritten records. Jacobsen, working for the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, compiled a list of the names of early pioneers who were buried in the Provo City cemetery in Provo, Utah, from 1849 to 1859. Also included is a history of the first deaths and burials in Provo, Utah. The old city cemetery was first located on the hill where Brigham Young University was later built.

Dates: 1949-1965

Sarah Fletcher Jones letters

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2529
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters addressed to Francis W. Kirkham. They were written in Provo, Utah and were often signed with "Your Cincere & Affectionate friend." Jones signed her name both as "Sadie" and as "Sayde." The items are concerned with personal matters and happenings in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1896-1898