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Brigham Young letters to Harriet Elizabeth Cook Campbell Young
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 576
Scope and Contents
Photographs of handwritten letters addressed to "Hariot Cook," "my dear wife." The items were written when Young was in Iowa moving west as leader of the Mormons. Young urges Cook, who was still in Nauvoo, Illinois, to join him in Iowa.
Dates:
1846
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young letter
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 538
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten letter dated April 12, 1867 and a newspaper clipping dated July 17, 1958. In the letter Brigham Young calls Ira Hinkley to settle Cove Creek and to build a fort there. The building is known as Cove Fort. The newspaper clipping shows a photograph of the fort.
Dates:
1867 April 12; 1958 July 17
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young letter to George Q. Cannon
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 577
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten and signed letter, dated November 3, 1859, and addressed to George Q. Cannon. Young writes about the arrival of pioneers to Utah, comments positively on the economic impact of the Johnson's army at Camp Floyd, Utah, states the advantages of the territorial legislature meeting in Salt Lake City rather than in Fillmore, Utah, and infroms Cannon of his appointment to the office of an Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to fill the vacancy made when...
Dates:
1859 November 3
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young letter to Harriet Elizabeth Cook Campbell Young
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 64
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letter dated March 25, 1846 and addressed to Harriet Cook Young, one of Brigham Young's wives. Brigham Young writes about the prospects of the Mormons migrating to the West.
Dates:
1846 March 25
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young letter to Oscar B. Young
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 575
Scope and Contents
Photographs of a handwritten and signed letter which was composed in Provo, Utah, dated February 27, 1868, and addressed to Oscar B. Young. Brigham gives his impressions of Provo, advises Oscar on Indian problems the Mormon settlers had along the "Muddy River," and comments on politics.
Dates:
1868 February 27
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young letter to William L. Marcy
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 815
Scope and Contents
Contains photocopies of two handwritten and signed letters dated December 17, 1845 and addressed to William L. Marcy, Secretary of War for the United States. The two items are identical in content, but one appears to be a rough draft of the other. Young petitions the federal government for funds to aid in the westward migration of Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois, with Vancouver Island as a possible destination. Young requests money to build block houses and stockades on the Oregon Trail and...
Dates:
1845 December 17
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young letters
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 289
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of two handwritten letters with a microfiche copy. The second of the two letters was started on the same page as the first. The items were dated 20 April and 4 May 1847. Young writes to his wife, Mary Ann Angell Young, while she was in Winter Quarters, Nebraska. Young informs Mary about his experiences while on the initial trek of Mormon pioneers to Utah.
Dates:
1847
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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