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Found in 1104 Collections and/or Records:

Brigham Young letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313345]
Identifier: MSS SC 1584
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten letter to the Mormon stake president of Ephraim, Utah by Brigham Young (1801-1877). Brigham Young expresses his wish that at least fifty families from Ephraim settle in Castle Valley.

Dates: 1877
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young letter

Brigham Young letter to Eliza Cooper

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489986]
Identifier: MSS 613
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter dated 9 March 1877 and addressed to Eliza Cooper of Monroe, Utah. The item was composed in St. George, Utah. Young responds to a number of questions dealing with clothing to be worn in LDS temples, how the bodies of dead children are to be dressed, to whom the children belong when their mother has been sealed to two men, what women should do when they have a husband that is not strong in the faith, and the veracity of being married outside of a...
Dates: 1877 March 9
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young letter to Eliza Cooper

Brigham Young letter to John F. Kinney

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233284766]
Identifier: Vault MSS 67
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter, dated April 12, 1864, and addressed to Judge J. F. Kinney. Young writes about a wide range of political and economic issues in Utah.

Dates: 1864 April 12
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young letter to John F. Kinney

Brigham Young letter to Samuel W. Richards

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197233294708]
Identifier: Vault MSS 779
Scope and Contents Handwritten and signed letter dated 27 Feb. 1853 and addressed to Samuel W. Richards in Liverpool, England. The item was composed in Salt Lake City, Utah. Young reports on the condition of Utah at the end of a severe winter during which the Utahns received no mail from outside the territory. Young also writes about the sugar industry in Utah, the progress on buildings and machinery of the Deseret Manufacturing Company, the excavations on the foundation of the Salt Lake Temple, the...
Dates: 1853 February 27
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young letter to Samuel W. Richards

Brigham Young letter to the United Order of Monroe

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7471
Abstract

The letter, written by Brigham Young in 1877, is a response to the Board of the United Order after William A. Warnock, the secretary of the organization, contacted Brigham Young.

Dates: 1877 February 15
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young letter to the United Order of Monroe

Brigham Young letters

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 409
Scope and Contents

Includes sixteen handwritten and signed letters addressed to officials of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, including Thomas Clark Durant, C. L. Frost, and S. B Reed. Young writes about his role as a contractor for the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad through Utah. Photocopies of items also included in collection.

Dates: 1863-1870
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young letters

Brigham Young letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306612]
Identifier: MSS SC 890
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photocopies of typescripts of the original documents. These letters were written by Young to Horace S. Eldredge, a prominent Mormon Church leader and businessman. The items express Young's opinions on church finances and policies and Utah political issues.

Dates: 1857-1859
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young letters

Brigham Young letters to Brigham Morris Young

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232538238]
Identifier: MSS 560
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten letters addressed to Young's son, Brigham Morris Young (1854-1931), while serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hawaii. Brigham Young writes about the Church's activities in Utah including the progress on the St. George Temple, Young's inspiration to start the United Order, his trip to St. George, Utah, and numerous conferences and meetings.

Dates: 1873-1874
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Brigham Young letters to Brigham Morris Young

J. Wesley Young letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312818]
Identifier: MSS SC 1450
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of handwritten letter by J. Wesley Young in New York to his sister Mary Luella Merza Young Goulding in California. Young informs his sister of the death of their father John W. Young on March 10, 1924.

Dates: 1924
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / J. Wesley Young letter

Joseph Young letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230307776]
Identifier: MSS SC 1001
Scope and Contents

Holograph letters addressed to Lewis Harvey dated 16 Nov. and 18 Nov. 1880. Young tells about his conversion to the Mormon Church and baptism into that faith in 1832. He also tells about his dealing with the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith (1805-1844); about the Mormon Church in Kirtland, Ohio in the 1830s; and about the organizing of the Seven Presidents of the Seventies by Joseph Smith in 1835.

Dates: 1880
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Joseph Young letters

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