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Josette B. Ashford papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6137
Scope and Contents
Contains Josette Ashford's personal scrapbook of photographs, postcards, correspondence and clippings detailing her life from the early 1920s until about 1999 and course materials as a professor of French and Italian at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Also included are linguistics research and publications, handouts, articles, news clippings, poetry, and literary/linguistic analysis note card files from 1951 to 1990. It also includes her life history.
Dates:
1920-1999
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lorraine Morton Ashton collection on Ermel J. Morton
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6273
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of papers relating to the dictionary Ermel J. Morton, a Mormon missionary who went to Tonga, created from English to Tongan and Tongan to English, his accounts of his mission and translating the Book of Mormon, a history of his wife, a catalog of his materials from home, a typed copy of the talks at his funeral and a Tongan grammar book. There is also a book written about the time the family spent in Tonga.
Dates:
1956-2011
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Wilfried Decoo research papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6165
Abstract
Personal notes and research material of French graduate student Wilfried Decoo's
A The Image of Mormonism in French Literature,an unfinished third part of his BYU Studies series, 1846-1982.
Dates:
1946-1982
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Department of Languages textbook
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: UA 5763
Scope and Contents
Contains a Portuguese textbook produced by Department of Languages professor Gerrit De Jong for class instruction. Includes short stories and essays on various academic topics. Also includes some poetry and reading comprehension questions based on the text materials. Materials dated 1960.
Dates:
1960
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Chris DeSantis collection on the Translation Sciences Institute
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8729
Content Description
Contains bound manuals, articles, and related materials produced by the Translation Sciences Institute. Includes information on Junction Grammar and automation of language translation. Materials date from between 1975 and 1979.
Dates:
1975-1979
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Doctrine and Covenants concordance
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 6932
Abstract
Collection contains a late nineteenth-century Doctrine and Covenants concordance in Pitman shorthand.
Dates:
approximately 1875
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Larry W. Doman book and poem
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7806
Scope and Contents
Contains a copy of Doman's book "A Key to the Quixote and When the Walls Fall" and his poem "Alfan's Visit To Temple Square."
Dates:
2007
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Eric A. Eliason papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7914
Scope and Contents
Collection includes research, drafts, correspondence, photographs, audiocassettes, videocassettes, slides, zip disk and other materials collected by Eliason related to his research and travels. Topics include Mormon Pioneer Day celebrations in the western United States, Russia's "Mormons," foxhunting in Great Britain, J. Golden Kimball, and Saba lace production. Also includes a notebook and ephemera related to Eliason's service as a missionary and as a military chaplain. Materials date from...
Dates:
1994-2008
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
The first printing in California : the Mexican press, Monterey
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1373
Scope and Contents
Typed synopsis of a talk given by John Howell to the California Historical Society on April 21, 1931. The talk concerns the discovery of the earliest known examples of printing in California. The examples described were printed by the "Mexican Press" in Monterey between the years 1831 and 1834.
Dates:
1931
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
A historical and linguistic study of the nineteenth century Mormon attempts to reform English orthography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 74
Scope and Contents
Typewritten student paper prepared for the Brigham Young University Honors Program. Contains a study of the Deseret Alphabet, its origin, problems, use and failure in Utah society during 1850-1877.
Dates:
1975
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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