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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

May Louise Hunt Larson papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 540
Scope and Contents

Holographs, typescripts, and photocopies. The collection includes writings by Larson concerning the move her family made from Utah to Arizona, a history of Snowflake Latter-day Saint Stake Academy, biographies of Addison Pratt and Emma Hale Smith, and a birthdate record of members of the Snowflake Latter-day Saint Stake, Arizona. Also includes a biography of Larson by her daughter, Louise L. Comish and Larson's funeral program.

Dates: 1933-1965

Mormon enigma : Emma Hale Smith, prophet's wife, "elect lady," polygamy's foe

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230217538]
Identifier: MSS 1734
Scope and Contents

Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections. The item is an early draft of "Mormon Enigma" which length was later reduced as requested by the publisher, Doubleday & Company. The manuscript is a biography of Emma Hale Smith, first wife of the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith.

Dates: 1984

Emma Hale Smith certificate of guardianship

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 5941
Scope and Contents

Handwritten certificate, dated 3 May 1847, establishing Emma's guardianship of the Smith children: Julia, Joseph, Frederick, and Alexander; includes Emma's signature.

Dates: 1847 May 3

Joseph Smith III letter

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 211
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letter. The date of the item is uncertain. Smith writes for his mother, Emma Hale Smith, concerning her family and where they lived in Pennsylvania.

Dates: 1870