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Jock Nickerson notes

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 372
Scope and Contents

Handwritten book containing notes on geometry and on geometrical figures. The book includes many drawings of such figures and calculations based on them. The date of the materials is uncertain. Nickerson lived his last few years with Rey L. Pratt. Nickerson claimed to have known the LDS Church leaders, Joseph Smith and Parley P. Pratt. A brief essay is included which speculates on this claim.

Dates: approximately 1900

A ramble over the American Sierra Nevada

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2218
Scope and Contents

Handwritten copy of an article originially published in the "Good Words and Sunday Magazine" pages 626 to 629 in October 1862. The item was hand copied by H. H. Evans in 1926. Pawling writes about his travels in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Also includes a photocopy of the item.

Dates: 1862

Redd family papers

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 678
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten and typewritten materials. Most of the items were collected by the descendants of Lemuel Hardison Redd (1856-1923). Included in the collection are minutes of a Redd family meeting, a biography of Eliza M. Partridge Lyman, a list of persons buried in Bluff, Utah, from 1880 to 1951, correspondence of family members, two patriarchal blessings given by Hyrum Smith, and an essay by John Redd, a student at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1844-1966

William Sansom papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1977
Scope and Contents

Fifteen typewritten short stories with handwritten corrections, a script for a television play, essays, photographs, and articles. The materials document some of Sansom's writing career.

Dates: 1969-1972

Gary D. Schmidt letters from Lloyd Alexander

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7729
Dates: 1986-1989

Sidelights on the Mountain Meadows Massacre

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2719
Scope and Contents

Mormon educator, historian, and author.

Dates: 1940

Adolph Sutro papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1358
Scope and Contents Receipts, correspondence, political handbills, legal instruments, maps, essays, newspaper clippings, and various other printed and handwritten items which relate to Adolph Sutro. The topics and institutions concerned with in the collection include the Sutro Library, the Struve Library, the California State Library, the Military Library of San Francisco, California and San Francisco politics, San Francisco city planning, the University of California, Stanford University, mining interests in...
Dates: 1863-1942

Rex A. Wadham personal papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1717
Scope and Contents The Rex A. Wadham Collection is a collection of the personal papers, original writings, and original illustrations of Dr. Rex A. Wadham. The majority of the papers included in the collection are the original writings and illustrations made by Dr. Wadham for use in the classes that he taught in the School of Education and the Department of Religion during his tenure as a professor at Brigham Young University. Also included are other personal works including but not limited to documents...
Dates: 1963-1986

Gabriel Wells, the Philosopher

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 659
Scope and Contents

Typewritten essay with handwritten corrections. Scott attempts to understand the philosophy and the views of Gabriel Wells (1862-1946); a bookseller, historian, and an author; by analyzing his writings.

Dates: approximately 1930

Marzetta Stevens Willardson papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 1605
Scope and Contents

Handwritten, typed, and photocopied personal papers of Marzetta Willardson. The collection includes poems, essays, and short stories in rough and finished forms as well as correspondence and other assorted materials.

Dates: 1968-1979

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