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Literature

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 661 Collections and/or Records:

Meredith Nicholson poems

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233293460]
Identifier: Vault MSS 608
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed poems and note. The poems are titled "Tacking," "Mea Culpa," and "A Vesper Song."

Dates: 1892-1894
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Poems on life in a metaphysical sense

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230319037]
Identifier: MSS SC 2090
Scope and Contents

Handwritten document containing a collection of poems by an unknown author which deal mainly with metaphysical questions of life.

Dates: circa 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Poems on transparencies, approximately 1952-2008

 Sub-Series — Carton 9: Series 2; Series 4 [Barcode: 31197233251674], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 1984 Series 2
Scope and Content

The subseries contains 24 poems written by Clinton F. Larson printed on colored transparancies. All poems are undated.

Dates: approximately 1952-2008
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Clinton F. Larson papers / Clinton F. Larson audio-visual material

William Minshall Evans papers

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 803
Scope and Contents

Handwritten poems and songs. Also included is a biography of Evans written by his granddaughter, Grace McLachlan Foxley, in 1940. The dating of the songs and poems is uncertain. At least one was written when Evans was on his mission in Liverpool, England.

Dates: 1870-1940
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Poetics

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233289187]
Identifier: Vault MSS 372
Scope and Contents

Handwritten poems dedicated to Mrs. Eliza Touchet. Ainsworth made twenty-one monor revisions and corrections in the texts of these items and supplied a line omitted by a copyist in the poem titled "To Eliza."

Dates: 1823
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

The prairie states

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233287934]
Identifier: Vault MSS 356
Abstract

One poem written in Camden, New Jersey, on 16 March 1880.

Dates: 1880 March 16
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Parley P. Pratt and Belinda Marden Pratt book of poetry and accounts

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233244489]
Identifier: Vault MSS 725
Scope and Contents

One notebook with handwritten items in it. It includes poems by Pratt and his wife Belinda Marden Pratt. One poem deals with the martyrdom of the Mormon Prophet, Joseph Smith (1805-1844). Also included are financial records. Likely produced in Utah, although no locations are identified. Dated 1847.

Dates: 1847
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Preserving your past : a painless guide to writing your autobiography and family history

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1887
Scope and Contents

Drafts, research notes, and handwrittend corrections for the book, "Preserving Your Past." The materials give suggesions on how Mormons should write their autobiographies. The final draft was co-authored by Dora D. Flack

Dates: 1976-1977
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Priapeia

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230238260]
Identifier: MSS SC 310
Scope and Contents Materials used in preparing a scurrilous Victorian work to be published in a limited edition for a few subscribers. Includes five pages of text in manuscript, three pages of errata for the printed text, a three page incomplete list of subscribers, a sheet showing expenses in publishing 530 copies, an etching, two envelopes addressed to Leonard C. Smithers, a newspaper clipping dated 1890 February 20 describing the arrest of a London bookseller and a publisher's salesman for dealing in...
Dates: 1890
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James R. Price letter and poems

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318047]
Identifier: MSS SC 1936
Scope and Contents

Contains a typewritten letter and two typewritten poems. The poems were written by Marjorie Price Allen and Graham W. Doxey. The items commemorate nine women of Tarboro, North Carolina who raised funds for the construction of a Mormon chapel.

Dates: 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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