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Contains draft notes of various works by Thayer. Materials pertain to publications, and include consecutive drafts of the work with author's commentary. Also includes correspondence with publishers and responses. Dated circa 1969-1991.

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Photocopies of a typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. The book "Family Kingdom" is a fictionalized account of the lives of the author's parents, John W. Taylor (1858-1916), an apostle in the Mormon Church, and Janet Maria Woolley Taylor (1870- ), a polygamous wife.

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Typewritten copy of Smeath's dissertaion for her PhD degree in the Department of Theatre and Cinematic Arts at Brigham Young University. The item is entitled: "Great reckonings in little rooms: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, and certian circles of association." Also included are two typewritten plays with handwritten corrections. They are entitled: "A Pride of Heretics" and "The Foreordained."

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Contains Moore's personal, nonfiction Christmas story that was included in the book All is Bright. Dated 2009.

Scope and Contents Contains literary manuscripts and correspondence, personal journals and family histories, and illustrations and charter maps of various southern Californian cities, all materials written and created throughout Herbert Harker's life. Manuscripts include materials such as Goldenrod (1972) and Turn Again Home (1974-1975), which both illustrate the cowboy/farmer lifestyle in Cardston, Canada. Herbert also worked on short stories for juvenile and adult audiences, and religious texts, topics...

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The collection contains four manuscript short stories, one poem, eight pages of handwritten notes, and one typed pageant script.

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Typewritten play dealing with a Mormon family at the time of a Mormon General Conference.

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Correspondence, research materials, and drafts relating to Taylor's histories, novels, articles, plays, and motion picture scripts. The materials relate to a wide range of Mormon related topics and to other subjects.

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The collections consists primarily of manuscripts of Thayer's works, including personal notes, publisher/editor corrections and correspondence, and some public response. Also included are various newspaper and magazine articles featuring the author.

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Photocopy of a typewritten "pageant." The item depicts scenes in the life of Martha Smith Harris. She was the daughter of Hyrum Smith (1800-1844), the brother of the first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph Smith (1805-1844).