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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 6568 Collections and/or Records:

Daily journal of J. W. Booth while traveling from Alpine, Utah, 1903-1904

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 12
Scope and Contents

Contains mission records; describes call to be president of Turkish Mission; traveling from Alpine to Aintab, Turkey; missionary work and mission affairs. Entries date from between August 1, 1903 and September 25, 1904.

Dates: 1903-1904
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of Jos. W. Booth, 1922-1925

 Item — Box 3: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230364678], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 16
Scope and Contents

Contains Church and mission records; describes mission work; activities of the Church; teaching English classes; arrival of wife to mission; visit of David O. McKay. Entries date from between August 1, 1922 and April 30, 1925.

Dates: 1922-1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of Joseph W. Booth, 1906-1908

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 14
Scope and Contents

Contains mission records; describes work as president of Turkish Mission, mission affairs; figuring the curvature of the earth; traveling through mission. Entries date from between January 1, 1906 and September 30, 1908.

Dates: 1906-1908
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of Joseph W. Booth, 1908-1922

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 15
Scope and Contents

Describes work as mission president in Turkey; traveling through Palestine; release and journey back to Alpine; lecturing throughout Utah on Palestine and the Near East; storekeeper in Alpine; called as president of the Armenian (Turkish) Mission; "Form for Marriage Ceremony, with Preliminaries," written in Turkish and inserted in book. Entries dated from between October 1, 1908 and July 31, 1922, with break from April, 1910 to August 19, 1921.

Dates: 1908-1922
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of Joseph W. Booth, 1928 January-December

 Item — Box 3: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230364678], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 18
Scope and Contents

Describes mission work; moving to Haifa; traveling to different branches; entry made by wife recording Booth's death. Entries date from between January 1, 1928 and December 5, 1928.

Dates: 1928 January-December
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daisy and Ethel Oakey letter to Jim Oakey, 1886 May 10

 Item — Box 7: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239125849], Folder: 9
Identifier: MSS 8593 Series 3 Sub-Series 4
Dates: 1886 May 10
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8593, Sarah Oakey Sirrine collection / Dawn Curtis collection of Sarah Oakey Sirrine manuscripts / Volume 4

Dale Z. Kirby theses and dissertation, 1971

 File — Carton 21: Series 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 6154 Series 3 Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents

History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Switzerland thesis by Dale Z. Kirby. Dated 1971.

Dates: Other: 1971
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 6154, Donald Q. Cannon faculty and family papers / Donald Q. Cannon teaching and instructional materials / Donald Q. Cannon collection of theses and dissertations

Abram and Sadie Dalley journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3155
Scope and Contents

Collection includes the journals of both Abram F. Dalley and Sadie Buttars Dalley between 1978 and 2004. The journals include descriptions of the writers' personal thoughts and daily activities, including a desciption of their missionary service to South Carolina. Some of the journals include indexes and some greeting cards.

Dates: 1978-2004
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Abram and Sadie Dalley journals

Victoria C. Dallin diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230347475]
Identifier: MSS 1325
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary. Dallin writes about her early education and artistic accomplishments. She also writes about the activities of the Dallin family. There are many gaps in the record. At the end of the diary there appears to be a list of the sculpture pieces created by Dallin and gives their location.

Dates: 1879-1944
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Victoria C. Dallin diary

Don McCarroll Dalton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1059
Scope and Contents Correspondence, diaries, articles, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and certificates. The correspondents include various leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dalton's mother, and other friends and associates. The diaries cover the time when Dalton served on a mission for the Church in the Central States from 1914 to 1916, when he was with the United States armed forces in France from 1918 to 1919, and when he served as a mission in South Africa from 1929 to 1935....
Dates: 1906-1965
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Don McCarroll Dalton papers

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