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Autobiographies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 2092 Collections and/or Records:

Edited draft part two, approximately 1984

 File — Box 52: Series 3 [Barcode: 31197227637433], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 3 Sub-Series 8 File 2
Dates: approximately 1984
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow published and unpublished manuscripts / Helen Foster Snow files on My China Papers

Edmond Preston Hyatt autobiography, 2003 December

 File — Box 104: Series 5; Series 6 [Barcode: 31197233285250], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 5 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 1
Scope and Contents

Contains the autobiography of Edmond Preston Hyatt. The autobiography describes Hyatt's service in the Corps of Engineering in the U.S. Army from 1942-1946. Dated December 2003.

Dates: 2003 December
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army engineers

Edna Coray Dyer notes on spiritual experiences, date of production not identified

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 31197231055754], Folder: 6
Identifier: MSS 1422
Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Coray family papers

Edna Coray Dyer program book, 1921-1923

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 31197231055754], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 1422
Dates: 1921-1923
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Coray family papers

Edna Coray Dyer programs, date of production not identified

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 31197231055754], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 1422
Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Coray family papers

Edward Donald Snow papers, 2000 January 8, 2001

 File — Box 10: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 8 [Barcode: 31197231005486], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 7 Sub-Series 1 Sub-Series 2 File 248
Scope and Contents note Materials contain an extensive personal history written by Edward Donald Snow and his wife, A. Anne Snow. Contains an account of combat in Belgium at the Siegfried Line and the widespread use of captured German arms and equipment in Allied units. Includes photographs which show Snow in military dress, with fellow soldiers, with his family, operating his military equipment, and attending 2nd Division reunions. Also includes photographs of his areas of combat, German prisoners of war, and...
Dates: 2000 January 8; Publication: 2001
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for World War II (Europe) / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army Infantry

Edward M. Ashton letters to Samuel Russell, Jr., between 1879 and 1963

 File — Box 5: Series 6 [Barcode: 31197233277612], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 1511 Series 6 File 5
Scope and Contents

Contains letters from Edward M. Ashton to Samuel Russell [Jr.], as well as a "History of the Life of Edward Ashton." One letter, dated June 22 (no year given), is signed "Morris"; it is assumed that Morris is Edward's middle name. 9 items, with only one partial date; Ashton lived from 1879 to 1963, so the letters had to have been written in that span.

Dates: between 1879 and 1963
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Russell family papers / Samuel Russell, Jr. mission and other correspondence

Edward Quinn papers, 2007

 File — Box 69: Series 5; Series 6; Series 7; Series 10; Series 11; Series 14 [Barcode: 31197231013027], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 2350 Series 10 Sub-Series 1 File 1424
Scope and Contents note

Materials include Edward Quinn's "My Personal History of the Korean War," an autobiography of his experiences with the horrors of war. File also contains military records, letters written about experiences in Korea in the U.S. Army, photographs, and newspaper articles pertaining to a dedication of a memorial in Korea. Date 2007.

Dates: 2007
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Saints at War Project records / Saints at War Project records for Korean War / Saints at War Project records for the United States Army

Edward Stevenson materials, undated

 File — Box 3: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197232480910], Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 2337 Series 2
Dates: Other: undated
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Emily M. Carlisle papers / Emily M. Carlisle genealogy and family history

Esaias Edwards autobiography and diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 184
Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography and diary. The account is retrospective until 1856. Edwards writes extensively about his conversion to the Mormon Church in 1839, life at Nauvoo, Illinois, and the death of two of his wives. There is a lengthy discussion in the opening pages of the diary about astronomy and a family cooperative city, "Edwardsville," which he hoped to build. Edwards made the overland journey from Iowa to Salt Lake City in 1848 by ox team and writes briefly about the scarcity of feed...
Dates: 1856-1882
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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