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Louisa May Alcott collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 503
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1862-1888; 1837-1989
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Henry William Bigler diary
Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3095
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript. The item is "extracts from missionary experiences. Copied from original diary owned by Delbert Bigler, Provo, Utah." The extracts start in 1853 when Bigler was on a mission for the Mormon Church in Hawaii. He writes about a smallpox epidemic and missionary experiences. He returned to Utah in 1855. He married Cynthia Jane Whipple in November of 1855. He went on another mission to Hawaii in 1857 and returned in 1858. He talks about his...
Dates:
1853-1899
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Kenneth C. Bullock autobiographical sketch
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2982
Scope and Contents
Briefly recounts his early life in Pleasant Grove, Utah; family; educational and occupational experiences; and service in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Dates:
1988
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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
E. V. Carter papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 405
Scope and Contents
Handwritten record (plus photocopies) of Carter's journey frm Ohio to St. Louis via Wisconsin. ALS's dated Oct. 15, 24, 1845 (plus photocopies) to his wife, Mary Hine Carter, are revised transcripts of diary. Diary entry for November 13 describes a visit to the Nauvoo, Illinois Temple.This is a journal kept by E.V. Carter during his journey from Tallmadge, Ohio, to St. Louis, Missouri. He wrote of a lecturer, "Mr. Little John," at a Methodist house in White Pigeon Prarie,...
Dates:
1845
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Chauncy D. Harris interview, Chicago, Illinois
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2945
Scope and Contents
Comments on his early life and on the influence of his father, Franklin S. Harris, president of Brigham Young University (BYU). Also comments on attendance at the following institutions of higher learning: BYU, 1930-1934; University of Chicago, 1933, 1934, and 1937-1939; Oxford University, 1934-1936; London School of Economics, 1936-1937; and Kent State University, 1937. Includes comments on his early interest in geography, some of his teachers at BYU and the University of Chicago, and his...
Dates:
1986; 1986
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Roberta Flake Clayton book drafts
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 715
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typescripts of biographies used in Clayton's "Pioneer Women of Arizona," published in 1969, and "Pioneers and Prominent Men of Arizona," published in 1974. Most of the 195 women and 118 men are Mormons who relate their personal experiences in the early settlements of Arizona.
Dates:
1969-1974
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Benjamin Cluff diary
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3076
Scope and Contents
Diary written by Cluff documenting his activities as he led a small group from Brigham Young Academy through Panama and into Columbia. Though Cluff states a desire to search for the Book of Mormon city of Zarahemla while on the expedition, much of the diary is devoted to describing travel preparations, countryside traveled through, and plantation owners Cluff meets during the trip. The group traveled by steamboat, by mule, or on foot for much of the trip and encountered many difficulties...
Dates:
1901
Matthew and Elva T. Cowley papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1470
Scope and Contents
Holographs, typescripts (some duplicated), printed material and newspaper clippings (photocopies). Contains journals, correspondence, mission papers, speeches and notes, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia concerning Cowley's mission to New Zealand, time as a student in Washington, D.C., his life as a mission president and Apostle, and the development of missionary activity in the South Pacific and Orient. Also included are an autobiography by Elva T. Cowley and Cowley family histories.
Dates:
1914-1980
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
The Fort Hall Indian reservation : history and establishment of the reservation
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 858
Scope and Contents
Photoduplicated typescript of a history of the Fort Hall Indian reservation for the Shoshone and Bannock Indians in Idaho. Events of 1941 are the last mentioned in the document, so it is likely written on or shortly after that date. The author is unknown, but the history was written from an administrative standpoint and includes such data as the amount of acreage, productivity of the soil, the types of crops grown, the quality of roads, and the types and numbers of cattle on the...
Dates:
1941
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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