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Latter Day Saint missionaries -- Turkey -- Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

Daily journal, 1895-1897

 Item — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364694], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 5
Scope and Contents

Describes teaching school in Pleasant View; farming and Church activities; life as a student at Brigham Young Academy; and teaching school in Montpelier, Idaho. Entries date from between April 1, 1895 and January 31, 1897.

Dates: 1895-1897
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of J. W. Booth, 1899-1900

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 8
Scope and Contents

Describes missionary in Turkey, president of Aintab branch, teaching at school. Entries date from between July 1, 1899 and June 30, 1900.

Dates: 1899-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of J. W. Booth, 1900 July-December

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 9
Scope and Contents

Describes missionary work in Aintab, bicycle trip through Palestine. Entries date from between July 1, 1900 and December 31, 1900.

Dates: 1900 July-December
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of J. W. Booth, 1925-1927

 Item — Box 3: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230364678], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 17
Scope and Contents

Describes mission work; Church activities; writing of pamphlet, "Come Listen to a Prophet's Voice"; visit of Franklin S. Harris and James E. Talmage; moving of mission headquarters from Aleppo, Syria, to Haifa, Palestine; Church and mission records. Entries date from between May 1, 1925 and December 31, 1927.

Dates: 1925-1927
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of J. W. Booth while traveling from Alpine, Utah, 1903-1904

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 12
Scope and Contents

Contains mission records; describes call to be president of Turkish Mission; traveling from Alpine to Aintab, Turkey; missionary work and mission affairs. Entries date from between August 1, 1903 and September 25, 1904.

Dates: 1903-1904
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of Jos. W. Booth, 1922-1925

 Item — Box 3: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230364678], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 16
Scope and Contents

Contains Church and mission records; describes mission work; activities of the Church; teaching English classes; arrival of wife to mission; visit of David O. McKay. Entries date from between August 1, 1922 and April 30, 1925.

Dates: 1922-1925
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of Joseph W. Booth, 1906-1908

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 14
Scope and Contents

Contains mission records; describes work as president of Turkish Mission, mission affairs; figuring the curvature of the earth; traveling through mission. Entries date from between January 1, 1906 and September 30, 1908.

Dates: 1906-1908
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of Joseph W. Booth, 1908-1922

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 5
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 15
Scope and Contents

Describes work as mission president in Turkey; traveling through Palestine; release and journey back to Alpine; lecturing throughout Utah on Palestine and the Near East; storekeeper in Alpine; called as president of the Armenian (Turkish) Mission; "Form for Marriage Ceremony, with Preliminaries," written in Turkish and inserted in book. Entries dated from between October 1, 1908 and July 31, 1922, with break from April, 1910 to August 19, 1921.

Dates: 1908-1922
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Daily journal of Joseph W. Booth, 1928 January-December

 Item — Box 3: Series 1; Series 2 [Barcode: 31197230364678], Folder: 3
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 18
Scope and Contents

Describes mission work; moving to Haifa; traveling to different branches; entry made by wife recording Booth's death. Entries date from between January 1, 1928 and December 5, 1928.

Dates: 1928 January-December
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

Diary of J. W. Booth, 1899 January-June

 Item — Box 2: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197230364686], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 155 Series 1 Item Volume 7
Scope and Contents

Describes missionary work and starting a school in Aintab, Turkey. Entries date from between January 6, 1899 and June 30, 1899.

Dates: 1899 January-June
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 155, Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems / Joseph W. Booth diaries

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