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Robert Lang Campbell journal
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 496
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains Campbell's original handwritten journal where he describes his missionary experiences in Scotland; emigration to Nauvoo, Illinois; experiences traveling to Utah as a Mormon pioneer; and duties as a Mormon Church leader. Dated 1843-1848. Campbell also added to the end of his journal handwritten transcriptions of his missionary certificate, his appointment to the Glasgow Conference, and a letter to the Church in Wales from Franklin D. Richards. Dated...
Dates:
approximately 1843-1941; Majority of material found within 1843-1850
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Harold Alonzo Hinckley journal
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7857
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a journal from the mission of Hinckley, who served in New Zealand. Though he served a four-year mission (1915-1919), this journal only covers the period from 1916 to 1917, when he worked mainly in the mid-west portion of New Zealand's northern island. Elder Hinckley provides a detailed account of day-to-day life as a missionary: prayers in the morning, followed by visits, meetings, and religious discussions with individuals and families studying the Church of Jesus Christ of...
Dates:
1916-1917
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
LaFayette C. and Pearl M. Lee collection
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2313
Scope and Contents
The collection contains (1) the journals of LaFayette C. Lee and Pearl M. Lee during and after their mission to Japan; (2) photocopies of several nineteenth-century items, including photographs and a Nauvoo receipt; and (3) photocopies of a photo album from mission to Japan, 1915-1919.
Dates:
1915-1936
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Markham diary
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 703
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diary chronicling Markham's activities as a Mormon missionary in New Zealand during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Also included is a photocopy of the item.
Dates:
1895-1897
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Hill Richards papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries, account books, correspondence, and an autobiography. The materials document Richards' activities as a Mormon pioneer in Arizona, as a missionary to Great Britain, and as a Mormon Church leader.
Dates:
1876-1919
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Johan Söderholm journal
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7866
Scope and Contents
Collection contains photocopies of the journal of Johan Söderholm and of the translation of the journal from Swedish to English. The journal covers the period from 1867 to 1895, with the majority of events mentioned occurring between 1867 and 1873. The translation was made in 1981 by his great-grandson Carl R. Sederholm. Johan gives his story and thoughts of converting to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his wife Carolina. The journal describes Church life in southern...
Dates:
1867-1895, 1981
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Levi James Taylor papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2200
Abstract
Includes ten journals, 1873-1935. There are date gaps in the journals, and some volumes are missing. Includes a typed copy of the journals. Also contains a Taylor family genealogical record which includes an autobiographical sketch of Levi's father, Pleasant Green Taylor. Also includes a journal of Levi's first wife, Nancy Jane Gates, September 1868-August 1869. Her record includes lists of students she taught at Lynne, Utah, in 1868; lists of children who attended Sunday School in Lynne,...
Dates:
1868-1935
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Daniel Edward Williams diary and autobiography
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 667
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography and diary with photocopies of the item. The account of Williams' early life was written from notes and from his memory in 1852. Williams, a native of Penally, Pembroke, South Wales, was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the 1840s. He served on a mission in Wales for that faith from 1846 to 1852.
Dates:
1852
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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