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Rough Draft and Final Copy Personal information about Madeline's childhood, marriages, relationship with Dale L. Morgan, and literary career.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Madeline R. McQuown papers (1803-1976) is divided into two main sections. The first contains personal materials, correspondence, and manuscripts. The majority of the correspondence is from Dale L. Morgan. His numerous letters to Mrs. McQuown, spanning the years 1940 to 1968, are filled with information on Mormon history and advice for the biography on Brigham Young that she was writing. Also included is correspondence between Dale Morgan and Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Madeline R. McQuown papers (1803-1976) is divided into two main sections. The first contains personal materials, correspondence, and manuscripts. The majority of the correspondence is from Dale L. Morgan. His numerous letters to Mrs. McQuown, spanning the years 1940 to 1968, are filled with information on Mormon history and advice for the biography on Brigham Young that she was writing. Also included is correspondence between Dale Morgan and Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Madeline R. McQuown papers (1803-1976) is divided into two main sections. The first contains personal materials, correspondence, and manuscripts. The majority of the correspondence is from Dale L. Morgan. His numerous letters to Mrs. McQuown, spanning the years 1940 to 1968, are filled with information on Mormon history and advice for the biography on Brigham Young that she was writing. Also included is correspondence between Dale Morgan and Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner,...

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Morgan's deafness forced him to communicate through written notes. Several samples of conversations with Madeline McQuown are in this folder.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Madeline R. McQuown papers (1803-1976) is divided into two main sections. The first contains personal materials, correspondence, and manuscripts. The majority of the correspondence is from Dale L. Morgan. His numerous letters to Mrs. McQuown, spanning the years 1940 to 1968, are filled with information on Mormon history and advice for the biography on Brigham Young that she was writing. Also included is correspondence between Dale Morgan and Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner,...

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Announcement of the presentation of the Wagner Memorial Award to Dale L. Morgan on September 27, 1961.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Madeline R. McQuown papers (1803-1976) is divided into two main sections. The first contains personal materials, correspondence, and manuscripts. The majority of the correspondence is from Dale L. Morgan. His numerous letters to Mrs. McQuown, spanning the years 1940 to 1968, are filled with information on Mormon history and advice for the biography on Brigham Young that she was writing. Also included is correspondence between Dale Morgan and Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner,...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Madeline R. McQuown papers (1803-1976) is divided into two main sections. The first contains personal materials, correspondence, and manuscripts. The majority of the correspondence is from Dale L. Morgan. His numerous letters to Mrs. McQuown, spanning the years 1940 to 1968, are filled with information on Mormon history and advice for the biography on Brigham Young that she was writing. Also included is correspondence between Dale Morgan and Fawn Brodie, Juanita Brooks, Wallace Stegner,...

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From Ivins to McQuown concerning Brigham Young's wives. Also a list of Young's wives compiled by Ivins.

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Two letters from Le Conte and two from Zeppanah, thanking McQuown for her patronage and assistance with a catalogue of Stewart's paintings.

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One letter from Sandra and one from Jerald in response to requests for information on Brigham Young by McQuown.

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Letters from McQuown requesting information pertinent to her research.

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From McQuown to various people requesting information on the ownership of land by Brigham Young and his family in New York. There are several responses to these inquiries.

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Four letters from John Selby, editor-in-chief of Rinehart, to McQuown concerning her Brigham Young manuscript. Each inquiry is a combination of encouragement and prodding. In January 1952 Selby wrote: "Next month four years will have elapsed since we began our correspondence, and I can't resist sending you a sort of anniversary inquiry."

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From the Division of Special Collections asking McQuown to donate her correspondence with Bernard DeVoto and any of his literary manuscripts she might own. The letters do not indicate whether a transaction was ever made.

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Handwritten draft of a letter from McQuown to Vonnegut requesting permission to use a phrase from Cat's Cradle in the prologue to her Brigham Young book. The phrase illustrates her approach to the Young manuscript: "Anyone unable to understand how a useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either."

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Three letters to McQuown in response to requests for information and copies from the National Archives.

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Two letters from Yale University granting McQuown permission to use the William R. Coe Collection and to publish portions of various manuscripts in her biography of Brigham Young.

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Incomplete, single, handwritten page from McQuown to an unknown person reflecting on her relationship with her terminally ill mother.