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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1102 Collections and/or Records:

Zina Presendia Young Williams Card collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231238913]
Identifier: MSS 2231
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, postcards, photographs, printed ephemera, primer books, a manuscipt composition book regarding primary grade instruction, and two artifacts: a human hair bracelet and a gold brooch with retractable chain.

Dates: 1884-1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Robert Carder papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8562
Scope and Contents Contains the genealogical research of Robert Carder on his ancestors from the Carder family and other related families. Includes his family group sheets, correspondence between Carder and other fellow genealogists, and miscellaneous family records. Also includes notes on Robert Carder's ancestor, Richard Carder, and his descendants that would be included in "Richard Carder of Boston, Mass., Portsmouth and Warwick, R.I. and some of his descendants," one of Robert Carder's published works....
Dates: 1965-1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William B. Carr letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230344043]
Identifier: MSS 181
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters dated 22 Sept. 1899 and 7 June 1900. These items are addressed to Effie Lewis Besler and are requests by Carr to learn more about Carr family history.

Dates: 1899-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Arch Carroll letter

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 554
Scope and Contents

Letter written from York, [Virginia] to William Alexander in Richmond, Virginia, 23 August 1785. Describes losses taken in a recent tobacco shipment on one of Carroll's ships.

Dates: 1785 August 23
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

James Franklin Carroll autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231044931]
Identifier: MSS 1013
Scope and Contents

Typed copy of an autobiography in eight pages. Carroll lived in Heber City, Orderville, Grayson, Blanding, and Salt Lake City, Utah. He also lived for several years in Mexico. Also included is a photocopy of a handwritten letter to his children in which Carroll states his faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The dates of the composition of these items are uncertain.

Dates: approximately 1950
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Kit Carson papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232537388]
Identifier: Vault MSS 513
Scope and Contents Correspondence, military dispatches, a deed, a Taos County Resolution, and two payment vouchers. Nine of these items are personal in nature and are addressed to Carson from friends and family members. The remaining thirty-five letters are concerned with and document Indian affairs. They include instructions from superiors, official correspondence regarding military actions during the American Civil War in the West. They document aspects of the Jicarilla War of 1854-55, the Mescalero...
Dates: 1854-1867
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

William A. Carter papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 490
Abstract

This collection includes several personal and business letters between 1863 and 1925, and letters of condolence at the time of Carter's death in 1881. In addition there is an undated map of Fort Bridger detailing the water lines and buildings.

Dates: 1863-1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Salmon Case letter

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349273]
Identifier: MSS 4012
Abstract

Letter from Salmon Case to Bates Cook of New York, 1839.

Dates: 1839
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Willa Cather letters

 Collection
Identifier: Vault MSS 778
Scope and Contents Five handwritten, typewritten, and signed letters from author Willa Cather. Four of the items are addressed to a "Mr. Wyer." Mr. Wyer" may be referring to Malcolm Glenn Wyer, who was librarian at the Denver Public Library at the time, where Cather had often done research. Cather tells Wyer about her social activities and contacts. Also included is a letter from Cather to "Miss McNully," a reviewer. Cather praises McNully's well-written review and laments the poor quality of many reviews of...
Dates: approximately 1926-1931
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Catherine D. Wills legal correspondence, 1938-1939

 File — Box 2: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197235226039], Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 8208 Series 3
Scope and Contents

These three postcards are legal correspondence between Catherine D. Wills' husband Wyman L. Wills and her cousin and attorney William H. Streeper. Two of the postcards are postmarked 1938 and one in 1939. Materials dated 1938-1939.

Dates: 1938-1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Hugh M., Jr, Rhoda R. Dougall, and Catherine D. Wills family papers / Catherine D. Wills papers

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