Archive: "correspondence" Tag
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new landing page for the Walter Mason Camp collections (MSS 57 and MSS P 16). This new landing page will provide increased access to researchers of these important collections with links to the finding aids and digital collections to both the Walter …
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February 11, 2022 by Ryan K. Lee •
Baker City,
correspondence,
ephemera,
German business,
German immigrants,
Heilner family,
immigration,
Jewish,
Oregon,
Photographs
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a newly digitized collection: Sanford Joseph Heilner and Claire Heilner Freedman collection on the Aron Heilner family (MSS 6721). This collection is a wonderful resource for understanding 19th century Jewish German immigrant history in the American West. Some descendants of Aron Heilner, including …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Thomas L. Kane personal papers (Vault MSS 792, Series 2). This is the second series of the larger Kane family papers (Vault MSS 792), which primarily relate to Thomas and Elizabeth Kane. This series contains the more personal papers of …
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February 19, 2018 by Ryan K. Lee •
British Mission,
correspondence,
diaries,
England,
Hopi Indians,
John Steele,
Las Vegas,
missionary diaries,
Mormon Battalion,
Nevada,
Paiute Indians,
Parowan,
Toquerville,
Utah
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: John Steele papers (Vault MSS 528). This collection contains three boxes full of diaries, notes, correspondence, dictionaries, surveys, bonds, certificates, horoscopes, and military orders related to a prominent pioneer of southern Utah and Nevada. The correspondence was to and from John …
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May 20, 2016 by Ryan K. Lee •
Apostles,
blessings,
correspondence,
Europe,
Missionary,
Orson F. Whitney,
Photographs,
poetry,
Smoot family,
Whitney family,
writings,
Zina B. Smoot Whitney
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Orson F. Whitney papers (MSS 15). This important collection is arranged in three series: 1) Correspondence; 2) Writings; and, 3) Whitney Family papers. The Correspondence series includes letters between Orson F. Whitney and other Church members, Church leaders, family members, and friends. The …
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Orson F. Whitney (1855-1931) Brigham Young University is fortunate enough to have a collection of papers related to Orson F. Whitney,* a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles from 1906 to 1931. While reviewing this collection I discovered an interesting personal exchange between Orson F. Whitney and his friend George H. Brimhall, who …
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BYU’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections houses one of the finest collections of documents and manuscripts related to the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Among this collection is the Hyrum Smith papers (Vault MSS 774). These papers were donated to BYU by Eldred G. Smith, great-great grandson of Hyrum …
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