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Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 201 Collections and/or Records:

Sir Richard Francis and Lady Isabel Burton papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 48
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, a portrait of Burton, and an autograph book. The items are both to and from Richard Burton and his wife, Isabel Arundel Burton. The materials deal largely with personal matters including Richard Burton's visit of the Mormons in Utah.

Dates: 1855-1890

Business papers, 1913-1958

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1993 Series 2
Scope and Contents

The business series contains correspondence and other papers from Richards' various legal cases, dating 1913-1958. It includes correspondence concerning Columbia University and with Ernest L. Wilkinson.

Dates: 1913-1958

Charles A. Callis correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315415]
Identifier: MSS SC 1789
Scope and Contents

56 photocopies of typewritten letters and miscellaneous items. Callis talks about his temporal and spiritual experiences and thoughts as a mission president and apostle.

Dates: 1919-1941

Johanna Christina Danielson Cannon personal history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312545]
Identifier: MSS SC 1421
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten personal history. Cannon describes her emigration to Utah, her homesteading experiences there, and her marriage as a plural wife to Angus M. Cannon.

Dates: 1910

James Franklin Carroll autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231044931]
Identifier: MSS 1013
Scope and Contents

Typed copy of an autobiography in eight pages. Carroll lived in Heber City, Orderville, Grayson, Blanding, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He also lived for several years in Mexico. Also included is a photocopy of a handwritten letter to his children in which Carroll states his faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The dates of the composition of these items are uncertain.

Dates: approximately 1950

W. A. Carter letter to Charles S. Kintzing

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233283925]
Identifier: Vault MSS 102
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated October 18, 1864, and addressed to Charles S. Kintzing of St. Louis, Missouri. Carter writes about bank drafts written by John Sharp.

Dates: 1864 October 18

Cornell Taylor Christensen diary

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230309459]
Identifier: MSS SC 1173
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary begun as an autobiography covering the years 1910-1931 and continuing as a diary from 1931 to 1936. It ends with a record of his struggle with tuberculosis which ended his life in 1936 at the age of 26. A letter to Christensen from his mother fills pages 167-176. It was written the morning of his death and describes various memories she had of him.

Dates: 1932-1936

Church papers, approximately 1917-1967

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1993 Series 1
Scope and Contents This series contains Richards' correspondence and other papers with prominent LDS Church leaders including Heber J. Grant, Joseph F. Smith, J. Reuben Clark, Jr., John A. Widtsoe, David O. MacKay, and Stephen L. Richards. This series spans from circa 1917 to 1967. It icludes two letters, 1938 and 1951, two Title Insurance and Trust Company documents, dated 1949, 1951, correspondence between Preston Richards and J. Reuben Clark, Jr., circa 1917-1949, and correspondence, mostly legal...
Dates: approximately 1917-1967

Franklin Clark papers

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3274
Scope and Contents

Collection contains information about the personal life of Franklin Clark, and includes journals, letters, papers, genealogical records, and historical documents. Historical documents and letters cover the period from 1899 to 1901. Genealogical records are undated. Franklin Clark journals cover the period from 1899 to 1901. Photocopied Edward Watkin Clark journal covers the period from 1847 to 1903.

Dates: approximately 1899-1903

William Clough letters

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233288395]
Identifier: Vault MSS 265