Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- French Polynesia -- Tahiti (Island)
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Grant Lee Benson papers
Lesson outlines, notes, scriptural references, grammar and vocabulary words, word lists, publications, patriarchal blessings, and correspondence. Most of the materials relate to the Tahitian language and Benson's attempts to master it and use it in his missionary work.
Matthew and Elva T. Cowley papers
Holographs, typescripts (some duplicated), printed material and newspaper clippings (photocopies). Contains journals, correspondence, mission papers, speeches and notes, newspaper clippings, and memorabilia concerning Cowley's mission to New Zealand, time as a student in Washington, D.C., his life as a mission president and Apostle, and the development of missionary activity in the South Pacific and Orient. Also included are an autobiography by Elva T. Cowley and Cowley family histories.
John Richard and Horace Eugene Hess papers
Papers, scrapbooks and photographs of two LDS missionaries, John Richard Hess and Eugene Horace Hess, dated 1930-1933, 2000-2003.