Latter Day Saint missionaries -- Thailand
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Levi Savage diaries
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 417
Scope and Contents
Handwritten diaries. The original items are housed in two boxes while the photocopies of these materials are housed in three. There are many gaps in the entries including a sixteen-year gap from 1861 to 1877. Savage writes about his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to "Siam" (Thailand) from 1852 to 1856. He travelled to Rangoon from Salt Lake City, Utah, by way of San Francisco and Calcutta. He returned by way of Calcutta, England, and New York City. He was...
Dates:
1852-1903
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Levi Savage diaries
Miller F. Shurtleff papers
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197239115212]
Identifier: MSS SC 2863
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typewritten and signed correspondence, newspaper articles and their translations, court records, and a travel itinerary, all collected by Miller F. Shurtleff while serving as a mission president in the Southeast Asia Mission. The materials deal with the arrest of two missionaries serving in Thailand for desecrating a Buddha statue by sitting on its head. The missionaries, Joseph K. Wall and Kimball Larson, spent six months in jail for the crime. Materials date from between...
Dates:
1972-1973