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Manuscript of book prior to publication. Presents the struggle of Utah for statehood, including all aspects and conditions relative to the practice of plural marriage and the issue of the "Woodruff Manifesto".

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Papers about Horsley and Burt family members, including many documents related to the early Mormon church.

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Contains personal papers of Julian William Cummings papers. Includes documents of his second wife, such as Relief Society newsletters and her own correspondence. Also includes his own collected religious material, like scriptures and recorded statements by religious people. Contains a newspaper article on his life, scrapbooks with photographs from his youth into his adulthood, and other articles. Dated 1900-2007.

Content Description Leather-bound journal kept by Hiram Mace. Journal was likely created in approximately 1860. Includes genealogical information of Mace's posterity, including birth and death dates. Also includes a brief autobiographical sketch of Mace's life from his birth until 1885, including his childhood in upstate New York, conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, experiences in Nauvoo, Illinois, travels to Utah and eventual settlement and life in Fillmore, Utah. Also includes some...

Scope and Contents Twenty journals written by George Henry Robinson dated 1895 to 1947. Includes his journals kept while serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain from 1895 to 1898 and the Eastern States Mission from 1903 to 1905. Robinson notes the weather and his location at the beginning of every entry. Entries outside of his time serving missions are mostly in Laketown, Utah, in which he usually makes entries on Sundays, discussing church meetings, ordinances...