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Latter Day Saint missionaries -- Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

John Law Blythe papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 791
Scope and Contents File includes copies of a handwritten biographical sketch of Blythe, written by one of his granddaughters, Pearl Elizabeth Mitchell Boyce; typescripts of some of Blythe's 1874 letters to Brigham Young (1801-1877) reporting on the progress of the Arizona mission and relations with the Indians; a diary covering 1857-1874 as well as extracts from 1870 and 1878-1880.The 1857-1874 diary describes Blythe's conversion to the Mormon Church in California; emigrating to Utah; and daily...
Dates: 1870-1880

James Pollock Park diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313725]
Identifier: MSS SC 1640
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of a journal which describes Park's missionary experiences for the Mormon Church in Scotland and the return journey to Utah across the Atlantic Ocean on the "George Washington". There is a list of mostly British names and addresses at the end.

Dates: 1856-1857

President Amasa M. Lyman discourse on the nature of the mission of Jesus Christ

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239235903]
Identifier: MSS 8910
Scope and Contents

Typescript of discourse given by Lyman on the "Nature of the Mission of Jesus Christ" in Dundee, Scotland, on March 16, 1862. The text is from the version that was printed in the "The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star" no. 14, Vol. 24, April 5, 1862. There is writing at the top of the copy indicating that this copy was given by Edna Lyman Houtz, granddaughter of Amasa M. Lyman. Materials dated 1862.

Dates: 1862 March 16