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Miscellaneous assortment of photocopies of manuscripts related to the early Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Illinois and Utah, including financial and legal documents, letters, notes, and other documents. Materials dated 1830-1956, with the bulk dated from 1837 to 1892.

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Autograph document signed and also signed in the text; a monograph legal plea, as attorney for one John C. Lloyd charged by one Thomas Clements. Sangamon County, Illinois.

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Contains a diary, correspondence, government documents, mission calls and releases, photographs, and a photo album has been organized into three boxes. The first box contains the diary and papers of Arther Cutler. The second box contains photocopies of photographs and the photo album. The third box contains the original photographs and photo album of the collection. Additionally, the photographs have been separated into three series: studio portraits, snapshots, and photo album.

Scope and Contents The central item in the collection is the diary of George Teasdale, kept from 1 January 1861 to 26 December 1861. The journal covers the conclusion of his time presiding over the Scottish mission, his journey to Zion, and his arrival in Salt Lake. Also included are a transcription of the George Teasdale diary; a letter dated Lima, Illinois, 19 March 1842, from William Wright to William Laurie in Burlington County, New Jersey, recounting the occurrence of a "most fatle disease" in his...

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Contains letters to James Francis Johnson from his father, Benjamin Franklin Johnson, and the journals of Benjamin Franklin Johnson. The collection has some legal documents pertaining to the death of James Francis Johnson.

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The Nora Nettie Labrum family papers include letters and financial information regarding the Labrum family and dates from 1889-1943.

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Contains manuscripts, correspondence, and legal materials related to anti-Mormon studies by Midgley. Also includes information on a lawsuit involving the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS). Materials date from 1965 to 2003.

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Collection contains general conference addresses and other speeches written by Richards and family history documents, church pamphlets, diaries, correspondence, financial documents, legal documents, books, photographs, newspaper clippings and journals, dated 1843 to 1959.

Scope and Contents Contains seven journals of John Lyman Smith, and other autobiographical manuscripts, as wells as a bound typescript volume of an autobiography/journal. The journals include accounts of persecutions in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, pioneering in Utah, Lyman's two missions to Europe, and his service as president of the Swiss-Italian and the Swiss-Italian-German missions. There is also a contemporary account of the cricket-and-seagull episode in Salt Lake in 1848, Lyman's service as a member of...

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The Priscilla Lewis Swenson journal describes Priscilla's observations on her travels between Utah and Missouri to visit her son Lewis on a mission.There are also 2 other journals of Priscilla Merriman Lewis, and the legal documents of her daughter, Priscilla Leone Swenson Pace. All items in this collection are photocopies of the originals.