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Eliza Ann Bennion diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 1128
Scope and Contents
Includes a 149-page holograph diary kept by Eliza Ann Bennion from 1871 to 1876, while living on the "Bennion Ranch" near Vernon, in Rush Valley, Utah. Records the daily activities of a young woman in 19th century Utah, including helping her mother, doing chores, and going to church and school. She also tells of visits to family members in Taylorsville, Utah. Most entries are brief and recount simple incidents. Also includes a typed transcript, dated 1996, prepared by her granddaughter, Dawn...
Dates:
1871-1876; 1996
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biography of Samuel Miles the son of Samuel and Prudence Marks
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7599
Scope and Contents
Manuscript autobiography, labeled by the author as a biography, with thirty-two pages of a handwritten life story by Samuel Miles. The story includes a life summary from 1826 to 1851, and short yearly summaries for each year between 1852 and 1881. The text includes information that is particularly familial and spiritual, but often references broader historical events that contextualize his life. He mentions several events in Latter-day Saintn history including the violence in Missouri, his...
Dates:
approximately 1852-1881
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Louis Orson Brandley journal
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 9175
Scope and Contents
Contains a thumbdrive with a transcribed copy of journals written by Louis Orson Brandley between 1950 and 1983. Materials record daily life in Utah and Alberta, Canada, and focus particularly on family, including Louis's wife, children, and grandchildren. Emphasis is placed on family activity in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Also contains an autobiographical life history about Louis's early childhood.
Dates:
approximately 1950-1983
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William F. Carter journal
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3092
Scope and Contents
Typescript of William Carter's mission journal to East India. Relates his call, his journey from Utah to California, his ocean voyage to India, and his missionary labors in Dinapore and Calcutta. Also describes homeward journey via Boston, Mass.
Dates:
1852 October-1853 December
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Harold Glen Clark papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 7959
Scope and Contents
Contains the personal papers of Clark, including his diaries, daily planners, scrapbooks, high school yearbooks, photographs, letters, sound recordings of his speeches, and transcripts of his diaries created by children. Dated approximately 1896 to 1985.
Dates:
1896-1985
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Diary on Mormon overland travel
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8296
Scope and Contents
Transcription of a diary by an unidentified Mormon pioneer describing an overland journey from Missouri to Utah. Author may have been part of the James Brown Company, and includes mention of a Danish company that may be the Hans Peter Olsen Company. Journal is dated June-September 1854. Transcription is dated 1990. Includes a copy of Emily Christiansen's original transcription dated 1960.
Dates:
1854 June-September
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Edwards journal
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8367
Scope and Contents
Materials include photocopies and transcriptions of John Edwards' journal written four years before his death. Included is Edwards' life history from 1831 to 1894. The autobiographical journal provides details about his joining the church in Wales, immigrating to the United States with his family in 1849 (as well as the deaths of his family around the same time), and his account of settlement and family life in Salt Lake City, Utah. Among other recollections, he writes about his faith,...
Dates:
1894
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Norma Elliott collection of Addison Pratt materials
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8660
Scope and Contents
The collection contains transcripts of letters from Addison Pratt to his family, a transcript of Pratt's missionary journal from his time in Tahiti, genealogy research of Addison Pratt's family, and a rubbing of Pratt's gravestone. Dated approximately 1950.
Dates:
Approximately 1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John T. Flake mission journals
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3894
Abstract
Two leather bound diaries containing entries by John T. Flake about his mission to the Northern States, 1909-1910. Also a typed copy of these journals and two earlier ones about the first part of his mission (1907-1908).
Dates:
1907-1910
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Barzillai Frost travel journal
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3276
Scope and Contents
Journal kept by Barzillai Frost during his travels in the West in 1843. Includes an account of his visit to Nauvoo, Ill., and his meeting with Joseph Smith and other prominent Mormons. A photocopy and transcript of the diary are also included in the collection, as well as articles and biographical information on Frost.
Dates:
1843
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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