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Letters

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Ida Smoot Dusenberry papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232535960]
Identifier: MSS 1432
Scope and Contents

Collection includes biographical materials, correspondence, writings and notes, newspaper clippings and mementos relating mainly to her personal and family history. Includes funeral guest register and transcript of funeral.

Dates: 1881-1955

Emmeline B. Wells and Annie Wells Cannon papers, approximately 1877-1963

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2344 Series 1
Scope and Contents

Papers of Emmeline B. Wells and Annie Wells Cannon, including biographies, a pedigree chart, a medal of service, letters, poetry, and a geography coursebook. Materials dated approximately 1877 to 1963.

Dates: approximately 1877-1963

Emmeline B. Wells letter to Mary A. White, 1895 January 14

 Item — Folder 3: [Barcode: 31197230233303]
Identifier: MSS SC 48 Item 15
Scope and Contents Letter from Emmeline B. Wells, to Mary A. White, President of the Beaver County Woman's Suffrage Association. Letter is written on letterhead for the National Woman's Relief Society, for which Wells was secretary at the time. Contents of the letter include resolving an issue with dues, presumably for the Relief Society, and advice from Wells to White on current issues related to the suffrage movement, including the danger of siding with a specific political party and being wary of women who...
Dates: 1895 January 14

Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith letters

 Item
Identifier: Vault MSS 111
Scope and Contents

Collection includes a handwritten and signed letter dated June 15, 1904 in which Smith congratulates Jacob G. Bigler and his wife on their sixtieth wedding anniversary. Emmeline B. Wells was a scribe for the letter. Also included is a postcard from Smith to Bigler. Materials are dated 1900-1910.

Dates: 1900-1910

Phyllis Southwick papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9541
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, writings, photographs, newspaper clippings, date books, and other ephemera related to the life and career of Phyllis Southwick. Materials of Margaret Cannon Clayton, Emmeline B. Wells, Elizabeth Ann "Annie" Wells Cannon, as well as the Cannon and Wells families are included and are focused on civic activism in Utah, higher education instruction, and women suffrage movements. Materials dated 1889 to 1982.

Dates: 1889-1980

Emmeline B. Wells collection

 Collection
Identifier: Vault MSS 805
Scope and Contents The collection contains correspondence of Emmeline B. Wells, 1898-1923; papers and poems either by or about Emmeline B. Wells; a certificate to the Columbian Exposition in 1893; handwritten documents written by Emmeline B. Wells or family; priesthood blessings; photocopies of photographs; original and typescript of ledger book (Emmeline B. Wells' copy with marginal notes) recording Utah Suffrage Association membership and "Relief Society Minutes, Nauvoo, 1842-1844;" diaries of Emmeline B....
Dates: 1842-1923

Emmeline B. Wells letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320159]
Identifier: MSS SC 2185
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed latter addressed to "My Very Dear Sister." Young writes of her problems with the costs relating to publication and mentions that women should have as many children as possible.

Dates: 1899

Emmeline B. Wells letter

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 659
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter thanking a Miss Grey for sending a transcript of Relief Society minutes.

Dates: 1887

Emmeline B. Wells letters to Barrymore Hillard

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8417
Scope and Contents

Materials include two letters from Emmeline B. Wells to her great-grandson Barrymore Nugent Hillard. The letters are dated November 1903 and November 1906. They contain Wells' inquiries about her family and her admonitions for Hillard to be a good boy. They also include some information about Wells' life and feelings about her life at the time. Dated 1903 and 1906.

Dates: 1903-1906