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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 6562 Collections and/or Records:

William Wallace Bilings diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331024]
Identifier: MSS SC 3211
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary. Bilings kept this diary while migrating to Utah to be with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Bilings writes about his journey from July to September of 1864. He describes the traveling conditions, the weather, hardships, camp grounds, daily mileage, encounters with Indians, and deaths caused by illness. Bilings [Billings] later settled in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1864
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Wallace Bilings diary

Bill Nelson letter to Hyrum Oakey, 1874 May 1

 Item — Box 7: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197239125849], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 8593 Series 3 Sub-Series 4
Dates: 1874 May 1
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8593, Sarah Oakey Sirrine collection / Dawn Curtis collection of Sarah Oakey Sirrine manuscripts / Volume 4

Bill of Sale for piano at Altadena, 1923 Dec. 18

 File — Carton 33: [Barcode: 31197239253393], Folder: 19
Identifier: MSS 8710
Dates: 1923 Dec. 18
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 8710, Zane Grey Inc. records

Billboard publicity, 1939

 Item — Box 11: [Barcode: 31197230227875], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 1540
Dates: 1939
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1540, Joseph F. Merrill papers / Joseph F. Merrill talks and articles

Alfred N. Billings diary

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232490158]
Identifier: MSS 636
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten diary kept from 21 May 1855 to 3 Oct. 1855. Billings was called to serve as a missionary to the Ute Indians in the Elk Mountain area of southeastern Utah. After some initial success the Mormon missionaries were forced to leave by the Indians. Also included are Billings' financial records from the 1850s and 1860s.

Dates: 1855
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Alfred N. Billings diary

William Eugene Bingham mission journal

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9210
Scope and Contents

Contains materials pertaining to Willard Eugene Bingham's service as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in South Carolina from 1885 to 1886. Includes both the original journal of Willard Eugene Bingham and a transcription created by his grandson George Bingham in 1978. Includes short, daily entries pertaining to the events of his day, individuals taught, members baptized, service administered, and areas traveled to. Dated approximately 1885-1886.

Dates: 1885-1886
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / William Eugene Bingham mission journal

Biographical materials on F. A. Hammond

 Item — Box 6: Series 4 [Barcode: 31197233598058], Folder: 13
Identifier: MSS 18 Series 4 Item 25
Scope and Contents

Biographical materials on Francis Asbury Hammond. Undated.

Dates: 1884-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 18, Francis Asbury Hammond papers / Francis Asbury Hammond and Mary Hammond journals (photocopies)

Biographical sketch of Orville C. Roberts, date of production not identified

 Item — Box 8: [Barcode: 31197231055762], Folder: 10
Identifier: MSS 1422
Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1422, Coray family papers

Biographical sketch of the life of Luman Andros Shurtliff

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230233642]
Identifier: MSS SC 88
Scope and Contents

Typewritten condensation of the original journal of Shurtliff, a businessman, politial and religious leader, Mormon missionary and patriarch, which tells of his early life in Ohio, religious revivals, conversion to Mormonism, marriages, missionary work, mobs in Far West, Missouri, expulsion from Nauvoo, Illinois, immigration to Utah, life in Weber County, Utah, and military preparations against Johnston's Army.

Dates: 1936
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biographical sketch of the life of Luman Andros Shurtliff

Biographies and histories of Lewiston, Utah

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232480639]
Identifier: MSS 1577
Dates: 1881-1976
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biographies and histories of Lewiston, Utah

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