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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
Albert Stephen Jones papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 350
Scope and Contents
Contains diaries and photographs, including twenty stereographs, documenting Jones's experience as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Samoa and Tonga from 1893 to 1896. The diaries detail his daily activities and talk about the nature of his work. Jones continued to write in these diaries after his return to Provo, Utah until 1902. The collections also contains a handwritten Tongan-English dictionary copied by Jones and a 1895 article on Tongan cannibalism...
Dates:
1893-1902
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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