Letters
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Reed Smoot papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1187
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, journals, photographs, newspaper clippings, speeches, and memorabilia. Most of the materials relate to Smoot's career as a senator and his activities as a church leader. His senatorial materials document his work with the United Sates Tariff Commission, as well as his confirmation hearings. His correspondents include the president of the United States: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover and...
Dates:
1827-1967
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Reed Smoot papers
James E. Talmage papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 229
Scope and Contents
Contains materials pertaining to the life of James E. Talmage. Includes material from academic, professional, personal, and ecclesiastical endeavors. Academic materials include essays, school notes, notebooks, examinations, and memorabilia from student days in England and the United States. Professional materials include administrative materials, scholarly society materials, scientific research notes, and lectures, generated during Talmage’s time teaching at universities and serving as...
Dates:
1876-1933
Merry May Booth Talmage papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1607
Scope and Contents
Collection of documents related to May Booth Talmage, wife of James E. Talmage. Includes the original personal diary she kept from 1887 to 1892. Also includes a photocopy of the diary. The majority of the collection is photocopies of personal and family correspondence from 1890 to 1934 exchanged between May and James Talmage and their children. Also includes correspondence with other family members, friends, colleagues, and Mormon Church members. Most of these items were written while May...
Dates:
1887-1934
Welch family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2906
Scope and Contents
The John Welch family correspondence includes letters from Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of the Mormon Church and Martha Jane Welch; a letter to Harriet Atwood Silver from her parents; and a letter from James E. Talmage, an apostle in the Mormon Church, to John Dunn.Snow's handwritten and signed letter is dated 24 Jan. 1877 and addressed to John Welch. Snow offers aid to the Mormons in Welch's colony in southern Utah. He also discusses business issues, including his interest in...
Dates:
1847-1932
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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Welch family papers