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Switzerland -- History -- 19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

John T. Gerber correspondence

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 138
Scope and Contents

Handwritten correspondence. Most of the items are between Gerber and Louis von Buren and John Lyman Smith. Typescripts accompany many of the letters and some of the manuscripts are in German. Gerber and his correspondents write about Switzerland and the work of Mormon missionaries there.

Dates: 1862

John Kunz diaries

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 746
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten diaries. Volume one is not with the collection. The materials consist of volumes two through four and an account book. Kunz describes his daily activities while serving on a mission to Switzerland for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He spent most of his time in Bern, Switzerland.

Dates: 1885-1886

Jacob Foutz Secrist diaries and correspondence

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 748
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten correspondence, letters, and a patriarchal blessing. The materials were created when Secrist was serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany and Switzerland. The correspondents were his wife, Ann Eliza Logan Secrist, and other family members. Secrist writes about his missionary activities, and his wife and others tell about events in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Dates: 1852-1855