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Box 1

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

Letters, 1932 March 2-1934 July 9

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: MSS 1607 Series 1
Dates: 1932 March 2-1934 July 9
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1607, Merry May Booth Talmage papers / Merry May Booth Talmage letters

Merry May Booth Talmage color photocopy and transcription of diary, 1887-1892

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: MSS 1607 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Color photocopy and transcription of original handwritten diary of Merry May Booth Talmage. This volume was started just as May was leaving her home in Alpine to begin teaching at a school in Kaysville, Utah, in September 1887. Entries include engagement to James E. Talmage, her former professor at Brigham Young Academy, in February 1888, and her first years of marriage. Dated 1887-1892.

Transcription done by Shannon Howells, great granddaughter of May Talmage, in 2002.

Dates: 1887-1892
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1607, Merry May Booth Talmage papers / Merry May Booth Talmage diary

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