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Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Cedar City -- History -- Sources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Edwin Charles Cox papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231044865]
Identifier: MSS 1006
Scope and Contents

Handwritten notes, musical scores, an obituary, and excerpts from an autobiography. Cox writes mostly about his life in England during the 1830s and 1840s. His writings include a "Dialogue between Joseph Smith and the Devil."

Dates: 1896

Edwin Charles Cox poems and a diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1279
Scope and Contents

Handwritten poems and diary. Cox kept the diary while serving on a mission for the Mormon Church in England. Also included are two volumes of poems by Cox. One contains 75 pages with an index, while the other contains 468 pages and has a preface and a contents section. The poems are about Mormon doctrines and morals.

Dates: 1868-1869

Foreword to a life story

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230316199]
Identifier: MSS SC 1819
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography of John L. Seymour who taught at Sacramento Junior College for 24 years, produced and directed many plays, composed operas and chamber music. He later moved to Cedar City, Utah after the death of his mother and established a memorial library for her at Southern Utah State College. He discusses the operas he wrote and describes his philosophy of life.

Dates: 1980

Emma Priscilla Evans Little papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 357
Scope and Contents Papers of Emma Priscilla Evans Little , including diaries, biographies, correspondence, notes, and patriarchal blessings. Little kept her diaries off and on from 1901 to 1941. There are many gaps including one from 1901 to 1922. Little documents her life on a ranch near Kanab, Utah, then later her life in Cedar City, Utah, starting in 1932. The correspondence is largely to and from family members, most of which was written between 1875 and 1914. The biographies are for members of the Evans,...
Dates: 1854-1941