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Phineus Woolcott Cook letter to Brigham Young
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 204
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letter is addressed to Brigham Young, the second president of the Mormon Church. Cook writes to Young concerning the need to purchase mill stones.
Dates:
1867
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jesse Wentworth Crosby letter
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 216
Dates:
1866
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Elmer Ewing collection of Mormon letters
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 4142
Scope and Contents
Collection includes photocopies of correspondence collected by Elmer Ewing written by Mormon pioneers. Includes the letters of Temperance Bond Mack, Christeen Golden Kimball, and Nathan Calhoun Cheney describing their travels to Salt Lake City and other events in Mormon history. One letter by Cheney also includes a description of events surrounding the death of Joseph Smith.
Dates:
1835-1884
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Moses Franklin Farnsworth papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1678
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, record books, pension petitions, certificates, pamphlets, articles of incorporation, poems, blessings, poems, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to Farnsworth's activities particulary in the Mormon Church. Included in the collection are letters from the fourth president of the Mormon Church, Willford Woodruff, patriarchal blessings, letters relating to Mormon polygamy, and a book recording the work done in the Manti Temple of the Mormon Church.
Dates:
1870-1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Frederick Kesler letters to Brigham Young
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 184
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letters, dated from April to Sept. 1875, and addressed to Brigham Young, the second president of the Mormon Church. Kesler writes about the sale of property and requests that Young repay a loan that was made in 1853. Also included is a request from Jane E. Kesler that Young arbitrate in a dispute with a railroad.Handwritten and signed letters, dated from April to Sept. 1875, and addressed to Brigham Young, the second president of the Mormon Church. Kesler writes...
Dates:
April-September 1875
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ben Kinder letter to Brigham Young
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 198
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letter, dated 1 Sept. 1869, and addressed to Brigham Young, the second president of the Mormon Church. Kinder writes to Young requesting employment in the "woolen factory."
Dates:
1869 September 1
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lydia G. Knight genealogical records and correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 17
Scope and Contents
Handwritten genealogical records and 32 miscellaneous items, mostly letters. Also included are photocopies, typescripts, and three microfilm reels of the originals. The correspondence is between Lydia and her family members in the New Albion area of New York state. They relate family matters and include Lydia's testimony of polygamy. Also included are several pages of a journal giving an account of an unnamed person on a mission in 1836 for the Mormon Church to work on the temple in...
Dates:
1833-1883
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Jens Larsen letter to Brigham Young
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 180
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed letter, dated 12 Oct. 1876, and addressed to Brigham Young, second president of the Mormon Church. Larsen writes about some property held by Young in Manti, Utah. The item was also signed by Christen Larsen.
Dates:
1876 October 12
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Brigham Young legal statement
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 261
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten, signed, and notarized statement. Young authorizes the sale of ten acres of property of lot 1 in block 104 of Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dates:
1862
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
History of my father, Stephen Bliss Moore, and my mother, Eleanor Colton Moore : pioneers and children of pioneers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 290
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biography of Stephen Bliss Moore and his wife, Eleanor Colton Moore. Stephen and Eleanor were Mormon pioneers who married in 1857. They lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, near the "Indian Farm" by Spanish Fork, Utah, at the Tintic Mining district near Eureka, Utah, and near Provo, Utah. They had encounters with Ute Indians. Stephen worked as a miner, rancher, and as a grower of fruit trees. Lott often quotes from diaries and letters in the biography of her parents. Also...
Dates:
1857-1953
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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