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Found in 2714 Collections and/or Records:

Souvenirs de l'annee 1870

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312008]
Identifier: MSS SC 1513
Scope and Contents

Bound carbon copy of a typed document in French. This consists of a letter from Chevreau to his daughter Marguerite de Kronenberg. The letter incorporates notes that were taken during the years 1869-1872, which describe political events in France taking place at the time. Copies of letters on political matters are also included.

Dates: 1886
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Belle S. Spafford letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232481322]
Identifier: MSS 1584
Scope and Contents

Letters to Ethel Taylor Sessions, Belle's friend. The first item is dated 12 Nov. 1937. The rest are from the 1950-1980 timeframe. Also included are newsclippings regarding Spafford, several of her talks, and one essay by an unidentified author. The letters deal largely with personal matters.

Dates: 1937-1980
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Walter H. Speidel interview

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330315]
Identifier: MSS SC 3174
Scope and Contents Transcript of an interview conducted on 28 March 1985 by Burt Speidel, Walter's son, for the Ray Hillam military history project. Walter was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and was raised in Germany. He told about the Mormon missionaries that had to leave the country in 1938, and he was afraid that Germany and the United States would have to fight each other. He was in the Hitler Youth that had meetings on Sunday which made it difficult for him to go to Church....
Dates: 1985 March 28
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Mary Elizabeth Hendricks and John Dinnan Speirs journals and family records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2181
Scope and Contents

Includes her journal, kept while teaching school in Richmond, Utah, 1896-1897; personal histories written by her and her husband, John D. Speirs, which include information on their settlement in Tooele County, Utah; biography of Samuel Allen Hendricks; photocopied images of members of the Hendricks and Speirs families; and a family group sheet of Samuel A. Hendricks and his wife, Eliza.

Dates: 1848-1956
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Spencer family correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310457]
Identifier: MSS SC 1322
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letters from members of the Spencer family. The letters document the activities of the Spencer family over the latter half of the 19th century. Described are Mormon missionary experiences and life in Kane County, Utah.

Dates: 1860-1927
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Isaac Carling Spencer photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7725
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 90 photographs and 90 glass plate negatives taken circa 1900 by Isaac Carling Spencer of portraits and landcapes taken in Orderville, Utah.

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

Orson Spencer letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318310]
Identifier: MSS SC 1976
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten letters. Also included are typescripts of two of the items. The letters were written to Spencer's children when he was in St. Louis, Missouri and largely relate to family matters. Spencer gives fatherly advice to his daughters in a Mormon theological framework on how to conduct themselves and how to treat men.

Dates: 1853-1855
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Elijah Allen Spooner letters and diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 662
Scope and Contents Overland diary and fifteen handwritten letters. Most of the letters are addressed to Spooner's wife and were written while on the overland journey by ox team from Adrian, Michigan to Sacramento, California in 1849. Spooner writes of encounters with Indians, buffalo hunting, distaste for Sunday travel, a handful of deaths within his company, and travelling conditions. Spooner also mentions his religious faith in most of the letters. Spooner stopped in Salt Lake City and gives a brief...
Dates: 1849-1850
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Elijah Spray diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232941]
Identifier: MSS 711
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary. There are not entries for 1874. Spray describes his life in Morley, Yorkshire, England. He migrated to Utah in 1878. Also included are letters, genealogies, and notes.

Dates: 1873-1878
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Springville March 19 hundred and froze to death

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309079]
Identifier: MSS SC 1121
Scope and Contents

Poem written in a letter to Moses's wife, Olive H. Huntington Childs. The poem explains that inclement weather kept him from reaching Heber City, Utah, from Springville, Utah. He has been late in planting and they will not have a wheat crop. The item is written in a humorous style.

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

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