Photocopies

M. S. Wood family biographies

File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330620]

Identifier: MSS SC 3126

Scope and Contents

Photocopies of microfilm copies of typewritten biographies. Most of these materials were probably composed around the year 1950. These items were "published" in 1952. M. S. Wood compiled biographies of family members. The families originated in England, were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and lived in Salt Lake City and Rockville, Utah. Wood was a compiler of family histories.

Dates: 1950

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Wilford Woodruff correspondence

File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230312958]

Identifier: MSS SC 1541

Scope and Contents

Photocopies of letters exchanged between Wilford Woodruff and his brother, Asahel. Wilford describes baptising their family members into the Mormon Church and establishing a branch of that Church in Farmington, Conn. He announces the 14 July birth of his daughter and outlines preparations to migrate to Missouri. He bears testimony to the truthfulness of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1838

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Wilford Woodruff diary excerpt

File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348218]

Identifier: MSS 1342

Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary excerpt that includes a copy of an unattributed vision or a dream which Woodruff had obtained. The vision claimed to foresee of the last days in which a great loss of life and a great destruction would befall the the cities of the eastern United States. Photocopy includes entries from June 14 to 22, 1878.

Dates: 1877

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Wilford Woodruff family letters

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 8173

Scope and Contents Letters written between Wilford Woodruff and members of his family. Letters are to his wife Emma S. Woodruff and to his children Clara and Blanch. Also included are letters from Emma Woodruff to Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Beebe as well as letters between Emma Woodruff and her daughter Clara. Letters talk about family activities and contain advice from Wilford Woodruff to his family. One letter is written shortly before Woodruff died in San Francisco. Another is written while Wilford Woodruff was in...

Dates: 1877-1909

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Wilford Woodruff letters

File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230342716]

Identifier: MSS 818

Scope and Contents This is a collection of photocopies of letters written by Wilford Woodruff and several miscellaneous items. Woodruff signed 14 of the letters as Lewis Allen, a pseudonym used by him during the time he was on the underground, hiding from federal officials. The letters were addressed to Thomas P. Cottam, at that time bishop of the St. George Fourth Ward and a prominent civic and LDS Church leader in St. George, Utah. Also enclosed are two letters to "Grand Pa Cottam" one of which is signed...

Dates: 1887-1889

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Woolass A. Macey papers, approximately 1943-2002

File — Box 39: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 16 [Barcode: 31197231005296], Folder: 15

Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 File 885

Scope and Contents note

Material contains papers relating to Woolass A. Macey's service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Contains a memoir written by his wife, Gayle S. Macey, about his Army service, rehabilitation at Bushnell General Hospital, and church and community service. Contains two copied photographs of Macey during the war and one of him and his family later. Includes two newspaper articles about his fighting on Omaha Beach and losing his leg from a land mine. Dated approximately 1943-2002.

Dates: approximately 1943-2002