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Essays

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 879 Collections and/or Records:

Concordance for poets : an explication / by Thomas Schwartz, date of production not identified

 Item — Carton 3: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197233251625], Folder: 21, item: 7
Identifier: MSS 1984 Series 1 Sub-Series 40
Scope and Contents note

Re: "Concordance for Poets"

Dates: date of production not identified
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 1984, Clinton F. Larson papers / Clinton F. Larson books, periodicals, and reference materials / Essays written about Clinton F. Larson

Conditions and prospects of the North American Indians, 1855 March 14

 Item — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3 [Barcode: 31197233291712], Folder: 7
Identifier: Vault MSS 652 Series 2 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Essay written in a booklet by Henry A. Boller titled "Conditions and Prospects of the North American Indians." Dated March 14, 1855.

Dates: 1855 March 14
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 652, Mary P. Boller and Henry A. Boller papers / Henry A. Boller papers

Consular Service Department of State communique, 1932 March 9

 Item — Box 22: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197227637797], Folder: 2
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 2 Sub-Series 1
Dates: 1932 March 9
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2219, Helen Foster Snow papers / Helen Foster Snow papers on China / Helen Foster Snow professional and personal work files

Convocation, 1974 April

 File — Box 7: Series 2 [Barcode: 31197231236099], Folder: 4
Identifier: UA 692 Series 2 File 39
Scope and Contents

Letters, essays and a list of seniors pertaining to the college of family living's convocation ceremony at Brigham Young University. Dated April 1974.

Dates: 1974 April
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / UA 692, College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences dean records / College of Family, Home, and Social Sciences general files

Copies of revelations

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1857
Scope and Contents Two handwritten booklets. One booklet is a list of people which were persecuted and imprisoned for polygamy in Utah and Idaho. The other item includes copies of a "revelation" (26 Jan. 1880) by the Mormon Apostle, Wilford Woodruff, concerning obedience to the Mormon Church and an excerpt from his journal on the dedication of the St. George Temple in 1877; a list of 28 women believed to have been "sealed" to Joseph Smith (1805-1844); "testimonies" of Mormon Church members; a "revelation"...
Dates: 1869-1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Copies of revelations

Coray Lecture Hall, 1986

 File — Box 30: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197225508057], Folder: 10
Identifier: UA 1205 Series 1
Dates: 1986
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / UA 1205, College of Undergraduate Education records / Department of Honors and General Education administrative records

Clarence Cottam papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1942
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, articles, notes, minutes, essays, certificates, and miscellaneous items. The materials relate to Cottam's numerous professional activities while working im many capacities for the United States government and for Brigham Young University. The items largely deal with Cottam's work as an ecologist and as a conservationist.

Dates: 1924-1974
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Clarence Cottam papers

Keith M. Cottam papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233602074]
Identifier: UA 5608
Scope and Contents Contains newspaper and magazine clippings, letters and correspondence, business cards, reports, photographs, notes, research materials, and essays created or collected by Keith M. Cottam, primarily during his time as an advisor to the Hoc-viên quôc-gia hành-chánh (National Academy of Public Administration) in Saigon, Vietnam during the summer of 1971. Materials also include travel records such as immunization papers, passport and visa information, financial arrangements, and news coverage of...
Dates: 1969-2015
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections. University Archives / Keith M. Cottam papers

Count Itwa bound manuscript

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230311281]
Identifier: MSS SC 1361
Scope and Contents Handwritten and bound manuscript in French entitled "LES FOLIES D'UN PENSEUR" (The Foolishness of a Thinker). The item contains various writings on philosophical topics such as the process by which authors are inspired, and how men come to worship God. It also contains some thoughts on the human condition. These are followed by a long dissertation on Napoleon (1769-1821) and Napoleon III (1808-1873). The author writes about the latter's politics, character, and morality. Following these...
Dates: 1851-1863
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Count Itwa bound manuscript

Alice Taylor Cox school papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197233643185]
Identifier: MSS 8402
Scope and Contents

Contains the school papers of Cox, including class notes, chapel minutes, and essays about various topics including evolution, geography, dressmaking, and other subjects. Materials date from 1910-1921.

Dates: 1910-1921
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Alice Taylor Cox school papers

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