Box 1
Container
Contains 80 Results:
Letter, 1952 July 29
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 8
Scope and Contents
Morgan writes that he is critiquing Charles L. Camp's new edition of The Plains and the Rockies. He is also evaluating pamphlets for Eberstadt's Book Store.
Dates:
1952 July 29
Letter, 1952 August 15
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 9
Scope and Contents
Morgan writes of finding a collection of Nauvoo Legion papers and suggests to Brooks that she revise the Dudley Leavitt booklet.
Dates:
1952 August 15
Letter, 1952 August 18
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 10
Scope and Contents
Morgan comments on notes of a meeting that George A. Smith and Amassa Layman had with the Council of the Twelve Apostles in 1858 regarding the William H. Dame case.
Dates:
1952 August 18
Letter, 1952 November 29
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Object: 11
Scope and Contents
Morgan comments on Ezra Taft Benson's appointment as Secretary of Agriculture in the Eisenhower Cabinet. Also, he writes of the art of writing a biography and that he is still looking for a job.
Dates:
1952 November 29
Letter, 1953 January 27
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 12
Scope and Contents
Morgan reports that the Huntington Library is printing other Lee journals and asks Brooks if the Utah State Historical Society can reprint them in its quarterly publication. He also comments on the historical society's efforts to establish an archives department.
Dates:
1953 January 27
Letter, 1953 February 15
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 13
Scope and Contents
Brooks is up for reappointment to the Board of State History. Morgan discusses two new Lee letters that have been discovered and also the gap in the Lee journals and diaries in the 1850s.
Dates:
1953 February 15
Letter, 1953 March 15
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 14
Scope and Contents
Morgan writes about the W.P.A. records at the Utah State Historical Society Library, and of being asked by Mortenson to catalog them. He asks Brooks to see if there are any jobs available for him at the Huntington Library.
Dates:
1953 March 15
Letter, 1953 April 12
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 15
Scope and Contents
After having looked for a job for so long, Morgan reports having suddenly been offered four.
Dates:
1953 April 12
Testimony Given at the Second Trial of John D. Lee, 1877
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Juanita Brooks papers (1941-1993) is comprised mainly of photocopied letters from Dale Morgan to Juanita Brooks concerning her book, Mountain Meadows Massacre, published in 1950. Also included are some short stories, letters concerning John D. Lee, and an oral history transcript.
Dates:
1877
Account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, Bull Nally Snort, 1894
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a seventeen page handwritten account of the Mountain Meadows Massacre focusing on the part the Indians played in it. A later letter by Brooks identifies this account as having been written by John S. Higbee.
Dates:
1894