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Correspondence

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 1109 Collections and/or Records:

Spencer family correspondence

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230310457]
Identifier: MSS SC 1322
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed letters from members of the Spencer family. The letters document the activities of the Spencer family over the latter half of the 19th century. Described are Mormon missionary experiences and life in Kane County, Utah.

Dates: 1860-1927

Orson Spencer letters

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230318310]
Identifier: MSS SC 1976
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten letters. Also included are typescripts of two of the items. The letters were written to Spencer's children when he was in St. Louis, Missouri and largely relate to family matters. Spencer gives fatherly advice to his daughters in a Mormon theological framework on how to conduct themselves and how to treat men.

Dates: 1853-1855

Elijah Allen Spooner letters and diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 662
Scope and Contents Overland diary and fifteen handwritten letters. Most of the letters are addressed to Spooner's wife and were written while on the overland journey by ox team from Adrian, Michigan to Sacramento, California in 1849. Spooner writes of encounters with Indians, buffalo hunting, distaste for Sunday travel, a handful of deaths within his company, and travelling conditions. Spooner also mentions his religious faith in most of the letters. Spooner stopped in Salt Lake City and gives a brief...
Dates: 1849-1850

Elijah Spray diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230232941]
Identifier: MSS 711
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diary. There are not entries for 1874. Spray describes his life in Morley, Yorkshire, England. He migrated to Utah in 1878. Also included are letters, genealogies, and notes.

Dates: 1873-1878

Springville March 19 hundred and froze to death

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230309079]
Identifier: MSS SC 1121
Scope and Contents

Poem written in a letter to Moses's wife, Olive H. Huntington Childs. The poem explains that inclement weather kept him from reaching Heber City, Utah, from Springville, Utah. He has been late in planting and they will not have a wheat crop. The item is written in a humorous style.

Dates: approximately 1900

William Spry papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1829
Scope and Contents

Scrapbooks, speeches, proclamations, reprieves, newspaper clippings, recommendations, property appraisals, and correspondence. The materials relate primarily to Spry's administration as the governor of Utah.

Dates: 1909-1916

Katherine H. A. State papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230237262]
Identifier: MSS SC 700
Scope and Contents

Collection of personal writings, documents and photographs assembled to serve as an autobiography. Within the collection is correspondence with State's first husband, Rulon C. Allred; with Latter-day Saint Church General Authorities; and with other relatives. Also included are legal documents, genealogical records and news clippings.

Dates: 1908-1979

Wallace Earle Stegner letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311935]
Identifier: MSS SC 1483
Scope and Contents

Typewritten and signed letter dated 5 December 1955 and addressed to Jeanne W. Gunn. The item is a response to an inquiry by Gunn about Stegner's career and the publishing of his book "Remembering Laughter."

Dates: 1955 December 5

Wallace Earle Stenger letter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311919]
Identifier: MSS SC 1485
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typewritten and signed letter addressed to Karl Young, dated 26 January 1979. In this letter Stegner admits that he enjoys writing fiction more than history and talks briefly about his books.

Dates: 1979 January 26