Archive: December, 2015
Dec. 30 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of British author Rudyard Kipling, the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. Born in India and educated in England, Kipling showed early brilliance as a writer of short fiction. His first works appeared while working as a journalist for English-language newspapers in …
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December 18, 2015 by Ryan K. Lee •
England,
Hannahette Snively Pratt,
Isaac Russell,
letters,
Missionary,
Parley P. Pratt,
plural wives,
polygamy,
Pratt family,
Russell family,
Snively family,
Susanna Snively Young
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Isaac Russell and Pratt family letters (Vault MSS 497). This collection contains primarily correspondence between Russell and his family and letters to and from members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, including some to and from Russell during his mission in …
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Some of the newest acquisitions to our Fine Press collection are … Christmas cards! Many fine press printers produce holiday greetings for private individuals, and Special Collections acquires these ephemeral pieces along with books, broadsides, and other output from the fine printers we collect. The following cards (both recently acquired) were printed for the Ruth …
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December 17, 2015 by Cory Nimer
With finals coming to an end and students heading home, I wanted to share the a short entry taken from the student newspaper, The White and Blue, one hundred years ago. The paper, which was established in 1897, ran a Christmas issue every year featuring short stories, poetry, and other seasonal content. The December 1915 …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: David J. Evans letter to David John (MSS 3995). The letter is dated August 27, 1879, and in it, Evans resigns as bishop in Lehi, Utah, because of health concerns. David J. Evans (1804-1883) was a member of the Quorum of the Seventy …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Josiah A. Scarritt journal (MSS 3124). The journal dates from 1790-1816 and includes various reflections by the author on his life. Scarritt writes a brief biographical sketch of his life from his birth in 1790 to June 1815, focusing much on his …
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What was the hot-ticket reading material for the holiday season in Britain 150 years ago? The Christmas number of All the Year Round, entitled “Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions.” It first appeared on Dec. 7, 1865. All the Year Round was a weekly literary journal started by Charles Dickens in 1859. It featured the writing of many …
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