Missions
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
General correspondence, 1922-1923
File — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197231038594], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 15 Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
Materials include general correspondence dating 1922-1923, the time Whitney was president of the European Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of the materials are reports sent to the First Presidency from Whitney about events in the European Mission. Some of the letters are personal, sent between Whitney and his sons. They contain information about the illness of Whitney's daughter Virginia. Some of the materials also include information about Whitney's own poor...
Dates:
1922-1923
General correspondence, 1881-1904
File — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197231038594], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 15 Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents
Materials include general correspondence from Orson F. Whitney's associates in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including general authorities such as Joseph F. Smith, about his poetry, missions, and other endeavors. There is a certificate from Logan College certifying Whitney as a professor of theology and philosophy and an 1885 letter from Whitney to the editor of the Salt Lake Tribune. Dated 1881-1904.
Dates:
1881-1904
James F. Johnson letter
Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233244539]
Identifier: MSS 3342
Abstract
A letter from a Presbyterian missionary named James Francis Johnson to his cousin on January 8, 1883.
Dates:
1883 January 8
John Daniel Thompson McAllister correspondence
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232536364]
Identifier: MSS 4021
Abstract
The John Daniel Thompson McAllister correspondence consists of letters to and from John Daniel Thompson McAllister regarding, family and religious matters.
Dates:
1881-1908
Orson F. Whitney correspondence, 1873-1931
Series — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197231038594], Folder: 1-6
Identifier: MSS 15 Series 1
Scope and Contents
Materials include originals and transcriptions of correspondence between Orson F. Whitney and other Church members, Church leaders, family members, and friends. The correspondence gives information about Whitney's mission to Europe, both as a missionary and mission president. It also contains information about Church members' experiences during the anti-polygamy campaign in the United States. There is also personal information about Whitney's family, reports of his trip to Nauvoo, answers to...
Dates:
1873-1931
William Henry Solomon's diary of the Arizona mission
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230305465]
Identifier: MSS SC 790
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of typescript. Discusses in detail the daily life of Mormon missionaries among the Indians on the Arizona frontier and the problems with the Indians that eventually forced the missionaries to withdraw to Kanab, Utah, in 1874. Some personal and family matters are also covered, including divorce from one of the author's plural wives. Excerpts from other records of Solomon's are included at the end of the record to cover gaps in the main diary. Notes by the compiler, P. T. Reilly, are...
Dates:
1873-1874