Essays
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jock Nickerson notes
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230335397]
Identifier: MSS 372
Scope and Contents
Handwritten book containing notes on geometry and on geometrical figures. The book includes many drawings of such figures and calculations based on them. The date of the materials is uncertain. Nickerson lived his last few years with Rey L. Pratt. Nickerson claimed to have known the LDS Church leaders, Joseph Smith and Parley P. Pratt. A brief essay is included which speculates on this claim.
Dates:
approximately 1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Jock Nickerson notes
Schlussel zur Gottesgelehrtheit
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2862
Scope and Contents
Handwritten copy, in German, of Pratt's "Key to the Science of Theology." The Pratt document covers 177 pages. Also includes a seventeen-page handwritten copy, in German, of an account by Heber Q. Hale, president of the Boise Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, about going beyond the veil of death on 20 January 1920 to see the spirit world. The Hale account may have been copied from the "Beobachter," a Latter-day Saint periodical in German. Hale is misidentified on...
Dates:
1895-1922