Newspaper article, correspondence involving various Church leaders, and an artist's rendition of a proposed Seventy's Library in Salt Lake City.

Reprint of a newspaper page containing published texts of the speeches delivered at the second annual meeting of the Utah Historical Society by James E. Talmage and others, and an historical sketch of the Strasburg Cathedral.

Correspondence, journals, scrapbooks, lecture materials, published and unpublished manuscripts, memorabilia, and miscellany. The materials cover a large number of topics because of Young's involvement in religion, education, government (historical societies), and professional organizations. The diaries were kept while Young was serving as a missionary for the Mormon Church in Switzerland.