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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
Jesse Bigler Martin diaries
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 446
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries with a typed copy of one volume. Martin kept diaries apparently in three volumes. The second and third volumes covering the time from 1854 to 1857 are found with the collection. A typed copy of the first diary covering the years from 1853 to 1854 is also included. Martin writes about his work as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England. He returned to the United States in 1857 and traveled by rail to Iowa City, Iowa. Martin writes in...
Dates:
1853-1857
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
David Pettigrew autobiography and diary
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 473
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten autobiography and diary with a typescript of the item. Pettigrew (apparently also spelled Pettegrew) started his autobiography in 1840. His diary is sporatic and has many gaps. Pettigrew writes about his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1832, his life in Missouri during the persecutions of Mormons there, his experiences in Nauvoo, Illinois, his work as an LDS missionary, his participation in the migration of Mormons from Nauvoo,...
Dates:
1840-1861
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Kanute Swensen diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 165
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries with bound photostat copies of the items. The first two volumes, covering the years 1857 to 1868, are in Danish, while the remainder are in English. Also included is a typewritten translation into English of the diaries for the years 1857 and 1858 when Swensen was serving a mission for the Mormon Church in Denmark. Swensen writes about his immigration to Utah and his life in Pleasant Grove.
Dates:
1857-1902
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Toone missionary journal
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8775
Content Description
Compilation of transcriptions of journal entries written by John Toone. Describes his experiences as a missionary in England from May 8, 1854-April 29, 1856; the last few days of his journal describe when he entered the Salt Lake Valley, August 31-September 13, 1852. Contains a biographical sketch, a paper on John Toone and his music, and a history of Croydon, Utah, which Toone helped settle, written by decendants of John Toone. This book was put together by members of the John Toone Family...
Dates:
1854-1856; Publication: 1997
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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