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Jesse O. Ballenger letters
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 795
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typescripts of four letters by Ballenger, three addressed to President Brigham Young and one to Apostle John Taylor outlining conditions in the settlement at Sunset Crossing, Arizona. Content includes relationship with local Native American tribes. Dated 1876-1877.
Dates:
1876-1877
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
James Stephens Brown diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 807
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of typescript. Author recounts his call to serve as a missionary among the Navajo Indians by Mormon church president Brigham Young (1801-1877); the trip to Arizona; his activities among the Indians; and his return to Utah a year later.
Dates:
1875-1876
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Asa S. Calkins diary
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 226
Scope and Contents
Holograph diary which contains blessings given to Calkins in 1850, experiences as a worker in the Mission home and as Mission President, letters received from Brigham Young and family, and letters sent to Brigham Young and family. A short biography is included with the diary.
Dates:
1855-1858
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ephraim Green certificates
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 180
Scope and Contents
Printed and handwritten certificates. These items certify that Green is of good character and is travelling to Hawaii on a mission for the Mormon Church. Two of the manuscripts are signed by the second president of the Mormon Church, Brigham Young.
Dates:
1852
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jacob Hamblin papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 815
Scope and Contents
The letter from Brigham Young to Jacob Hamblin in this collection was written about one month before the Mountain Meadows Massacre took place. In it, Young appoints Hamblin to be president of the Santa Clara Indian mission and tells him to keep good relations with the Indians. This collection also contains four blessings given to Jacob Hamblin.
Dates:
1857-1885
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Francis Asbury Hammond papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 18
Scope and Contents
Collection contains materials related to Hammond dealing with the early settlement of San Juan County in southern Utah and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) business of the San Juan Stake which comprised a large portion of southern Utah as well as parts of Colorado and Arizona. The collection includes personal and family correspondence, ecclesiastical correspondence, and journals. Personal and family correspondence relates to pioneer life in southern Utah in the...
Dates:
1851-1901
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ansil Perse Harmon letter of introduction
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 122
Scope and Contents
Printed and signed letter of introduction for Ansil P. Harmon who was going on a mission for the Mormon Church.
Dates:
1874
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Abraham Alonzo Kimball family papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2322
Scope and Contents
This collection contains two journals belonging to Abraham Kimball, Sr. which record his missionary service from 1877-1879 and papers which include personal and Church related papers spanning the years between 1887-1888. Also included in the collection are family patriarchal blessings and histories, as well as two journals of Abraham A. Kimball Jr. which chronicle his mission to the Southern States from 1896-1898. This collection contains personal records of the Kimball family. Included are...
Dates:
1875-1898
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jesse C. Little letters received and pamphlets
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1124
Scope and Contents
Letters received, miscellaneous items, and pamphlets composed by Little. These materials largely deal with Little's activities in the mission field in the 1840's. Letters are from such prominent individuals as Brigham Young (1801-1877) and Thomas L. Kane.
Dates:
1844-1892
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Philip Margetts papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 406
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of diaries, newspaper clippings, play scripts, articles on Utah and LDS Church history, and correspondence. Margetts writes about his trip to Utah in 1850. His diary covers the time he served as a missionary for the LDS Church in Great Britain from 1857 to 1858. Many of the items relate to Margetts' career in the theater, to the Salt Lake Theater, and to drama in Utah. The correspondence includes a letter from the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Dates:
1850-1928
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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