In honor of the 177th anniversary of the martydom of Joseph Smith at Carthage Jail on June 27, 1844, L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a newly digitized collection: Martha Coray notebook (Vault MSS 230). Soon after Joseph and Hyrum Smith were killed, a young 23-year-old Martha Coray, later …
To continue in our celebration of women’s history this month, L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a newly digitized collection: Mary E. Lightner papers (Vault MSS 363). Known to most Latter-day Saints by her maiden name, Mary Elizabeth Rollins, Lightner is most well-known for her role as a young …
Today is April 6, 2020. Exactly 190 years ago today, on April 6, 1830, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was founded in Fayette, New York by Joseph Smith. To celebrate this occasion, you can read one of the first printings of the revelation that was received that day, known as “The Articles …
The year 2020 marks a significant anniversary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Church remembers the sacred experience of the young boy prophet, Joseph Smith, in what is now referred to as the Sacred Grove in upstate New York. Joseph Smith’s First Vision of God the Father, and His Son, …
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 …
This week we are highlighting another item from our 19th Century Mormon and Western Manuscripts that was digitized this past year: the (Auto)biography of Samuel Miles. Samuel Miles Jr., son of Samuel Miles Sr. and Prudence Marks, was born on April 8, 1826 in Attica, New York. During the winter of 1833-1834, after moving to …
L. Tom Perry Special Collections has recently digitized the Newel Kimball Whitney papers (Vault MSS 76). This collection is a treasure trove of original documents related to the earliest years of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Whitney was a personal friend of Joseph Smith, the first bishop of Ohio (1831), and second Presiding …
This is the fourth and final posting in a series promoting our exhibit of the history of the Doctrine and Covenants, which will be up from now until April graduation. Previous posts have discussed the early manuscript versions of revelations, publishing revelations in The Evening and Morning Star in Independence, Missouri in 1832, and the creation (and near …
This posting is the third in a series promoting our exhibit of the history of the Doctrine and Covenants, which will be up from now until April graduation. Previous posts have discussed the early manuscript versions of revelations and publishing revelations in The Evening and Morning Star in Independence, Missouri in 1832. The first attempt …
Last week we launched an exhibit of documents and publications that trace the history of the Doctrine and Covenants in the library’s Reading Room from now until April graduation. Prior to the D&C we know today, these revelations were first written down in some form. Examples of manuscript versions of these revelations collected by Newel K. Whitney are on exhibit, …