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The Lynn M. Hilton papers (1944-2002) contain family correspondence, holiday cards, travel journals, financial records, books, notes, rough drafts and finished works, newsletters, pamphlets, subject files, and news clippings. Lynn Mathers Hilton was a businessman, educator, author, world traveler, legislator, veteran, patron of the arts, and an LDS religious leader.

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The Lynn M. Hilton photograph collection contains materials realted to the scholarship foundation in the Middle East established by the Hiltons as well as personal travel and family materials.

Abstract The James A. and Mary Jane Lyttle Little autobiographical sketches (1808-1892) are fairly short accounts of events and memories of their lives. The sketch of James Little indicates his role in recording Utah's history: he was editor of the Millennial Star. The account of Mary Jane Lyttle records her father's involvement in destroying a printing press in Nauvoo. The press was declared a nuisance by Joseph Smith, and John Little and Jessie P. Harmon were...

Abstract The Grant H. Palmer papers (1788-2015) contain LDS seminary and institute lecture notes, documents on the LDS Church, correspondence, book manuscripts, articles, and drawings. Grant H. Palmer (b. 1940) worked for the Church Educational System (CES) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for several years. After retiring, he wrote two books, An Insider's View of Mormon Origins and The Incomparable...

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The Miles Pratt Romney papers (1881-1984) consist of diaries, newspaper clippings, certificates, typescripts of autobiographies and biographies, day books, note cards, correspondence, a published book and oral histories pertaining to the family of Miles Pratt Romney.

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The Melvin T. Smith symposium presentation paper (2002) was presented at the Sunstone Symposium held in August 2002 in Salt Lake City. In this paper Melvin T. Smith, a descendant of Samuel Harrison Smith, reviews the life history of his ancestor.

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The Albert King Thurber papers (1822-1877) contain transcripts of his autobiography and a partial diary. Thurber was convert to the LDS Church. He served several missions, including one to England in 1865. He was also a member of the Utah legislature, and later served as a delegate to the legislature.