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Brigham Young letter to Samuel W. Richards
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 779
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letter dated 27 Feb. 1853 and addressed to Samuel W. Richards in Liverpool, England. The item was composed in Salt Lake City, Utah. Young reports on the condition of Utah at the end of a severe winter during which the Utahns received no mail from outside the territory. Young also writes about the sugar industry in Utah, the progress on buildings and machinery of the Deseret Manufacturing Company, the excavations on the foundation of the Salt Lake Temple, the...
Dates:
1853 February 27
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young speech
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 573
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten copy of a speech given on 22 April 1856 in Emigration Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah. The speech was recorded by J. N. Long. Young urges immigrants to walk to Utah as much as possible because that mode of transportation was faster than by wagon. This was probably an attempt to get support for handcart immigration. He also talks about taking precautions to protect the pioneers against Indians.
Dates:
1856 April 22
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Margaret Blair Young papers
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 9290
Scope and Contents
A CD titled, "I am Jane" and labeled "BYU Black History Month; Margaret Young, Director; 2014." The disk contains a videorecording of a play directed by Margaret Blair Young about the life of Jane Manning and other African American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It details the journey of Manning and her family as pioneers to Nauvoo, Illinois. It also illustrates the lives of other black pioneers. The performance is based on early Latter-day Saint history and...
Dates:
2014
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Margaret Peirce Whitesides Young letter
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8813
Scope and Contents
Single letter, both as a photocopied manuscript and as a typed transcription, written by Margaret Peirce, daughter of Robert Peirce and future wife of Brigham Young, detailing her time on the Mormon Trail including her time in Winter Quarters to her relatives in Pennsylvania. Letter was written in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 31, 1848.
Dates:
1848 August 31
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Margaret Pierce Whitesides Young autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 882
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript. Originally written to be read at a 1903 meeting of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. Mrs. Young describes her life in Nauvoo and her early years in Salt Lake City, Utah. She also comments on life as a polygamous wife of Brigham Young.
Dates:
1903
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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