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Collection contains books written by Wilford E. Smith on both his life and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, scrapbooks of his wedding, war service and other greetings' correspondence, magazines, newsclippings, and other materials concerning his time as a mission president in Fiji, and reel to reel tapes of trips taken by Wilford E. and Ruth Smith. Materials date from between 1934 and 2000.

Scope and Contents Includes four volumes of autobiographical writings and two volumes of poems, essays, addresses, messages to his children, and other information. Autobiographical writings reflect his early life in Holladay, Utah, 1916-1934; work for the Civilian Conservation Corps in Utah, 1935; Latter-day Saint mission to New Zealand, 1936-1938; experiences as a student athlete at Brigham Young University, 1939, and the University of Utah, 1940-1943; service as a chaplain in World War II; experiences as a...

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Contains reel to reel tapes of trips taken by Wilford E. and Ruth Smith, 1977.

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Contains the following books written by Wilford E. Smith, including family history, autobiographies, essays, and textbooks on Mormon doctrine and sociology. Works date from between 1971 and 2000.

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, news clippings, history, Fiji mission magazines, history of the mission, mission speeches, correspondence from later mission presidents, and other scrapbook pages about his time as mission president in the Fiji Suva Mission, some of which were signed by Spencer W. Kimball, Marion G. Romney, Gordon B. Hinckley, and Howard W. Hunter, 1981-2000. It also includes news clippings and correspondence from 1962 to 1963, a whacking stick signed by students, "Val Hyric," copies...

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Contains scrapbooks containing greeting cards from 1934 to 1939, materials from Wilford E. Smith and Ruth Christensen's wedding in 1949, and materials from Wilford E. Smith's time in the U.S. Army from 1944 to 1952.