Diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
John L. Smith diary
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230316850]
Identifier: MSS SC 2047
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary by John L. Smith while living in St. George, Utah. Smith records his daily activities, which included temple work at the Mormon St. George Temple, guarding the temple, and attending meetings of the Mormon Church.
Dates:
1888
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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John L. Smith diary
John L. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 680
Scope and Contents
Contains seven journals of John Lyman Smith, and other autobiographical manuscripts, as wells as a bound typescript volume of an autobiography/journal. The journals include accounts of persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, pioneering in Utah, Lyman's two missions to Europe, and his service as president of the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Italian-German missions. There is also a contemporary account of the cricket-and-seagull episode in Salt Lake in 1848, Lyman's service as a member of...
Dates:
1792-1950; Majority of material found within 1846-1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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John L. Smith papers