Archive: "England" Tag
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a newly digitized collection: Robert Beale collection letters (Vault MSS 457). This collection contains official correspondence of the Kingdom of England and Wales in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, found among the personal papers of Robert Beale. Most letters are either by …
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May 4, 2020 by Ryan K. Lee •
Alvin Benson,
British Mission,
California Mission,
England,
Family history,
journals,
letters,
Parowan,
Phoebe Benson,
Richard Benson,
Utah
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Lorraine Rowley Thompson collection on Benson family (MSS 8555). This collection contains journals and correspondence related to the Richard and Phoebe Benson family. Includes journals kept by Richard during his Mormon missions to England, and letters he wrote to …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Orson Pratt letter to Nathaniel H. Felt. This item is a handwritten and signed letter, dated December 11, 1866, written from Liverpool, England, on “Latter-Day Saints’ European Printing, Publishing, and Emigration Office” letterhead. It is a brief letter to Felt, who …
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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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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Schmid and Topham family collection of Richard Benson, Alvin Benson, and William Richard Smith missionary journals (MSS 8535). Materials include the original missionary journals of Richard Benson, Alvin Benson, and William Richard Smith, collected by Afton Rowley Topham and …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: George Halliday papers (MSS 139). Materials include a handwritten diary that was kept from 1845 to 1854, part of which was written in Pitman shorthand. The diary also includes a brief autobiographical sketch of Halliday from his birth up …
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April 22, 2016 by Ryan K. Lee •
Arizona,
autobiography,
diaries,
England,
Joseph Smith,
missionaries,
Nauvoo Temple,
Nevada,
pioneers,
Utah
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Lorenzo Brown diary and autobiography (MSS 497). Brown’s handwritten record and starts with an autobiography which takes him to the year 1856 when his diary begins. He describes his conversion to the Mormon Church, life in Nauvoo, Illinois, and his relationship …
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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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Over the past year, patrons of Perry Special Collections have requested a large number of items from our 19th Century Mormon and Western manuscripts collection to be digitized. Most of these are small collections of original journals and letters of early members of the Mormon Church and pioneers of Utah and the American West. Many …
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