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The Margaret McNeil Ballard autobiography [typescript] (1850s-1917) describes her life as a Scottish-born LDS Church pioneer.

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The Ella Mae Donohoo Bills diary [typescript] (1915) is an autobiographical account describing this woman's move from East Cresent, Utah, to Lontree, Wyoming. The account was written for her family. A brief family history is provided with the diary.

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The Sarah Maria Mousley Cannon diary [typescript] (circa 1857) consist of an overland diary relating a journey from Philadelphia to Salt Lake City via Iowa.

Abstract The Samantha Tryphena Brimhall Foley autobiography (ca. 1930) is entitled "Why I Studied Spanish," by Foley. It begins around 1878 when Foley (1858-1948) left the Salt Lake area with her husband and young child in an oxen-train headed for Arizona. It ends around 1930 when Foley, then settled in southern California, was active in church work connected with the Mexican Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The manuscript provides a personal account of the activities of...

Abstract The Mary Susannah Sumner Fackrell Fowler and William Fowler diaries [photocopies and typescripts] (1854-1900) consist of a total of three diaries. William Fowler's diary was written in 1854 and 1855 and records his mission to Glouchestershire, England, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mary Susannah Fackrell Fowler's diaries, written in 1899-1900, record her daily life in central Utah. She provides information on home remedies for various illnesses, tells of local...

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The Ruth May Fox papers (1972-1973) consist of photocopies of Fox's diary and autobiography, supplemented with corrections and explanations by her son, Feramorz Y. Fox. Ruth May Fox (b. 1853) was a Utah LDS housewife and women's suffrage activist.

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The Kent Frost papers (1909-2010) contain the journals, correspondence, financial records, family history papers and creative writing of Kent Frost, owner of Kent Frost Canyonland Jeep Tours.

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The Rachel Seamons Hancey autobiography (circa 1900) describes her life in England and travel to Cache Valley, Utah.

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The Louisa Thalmann Hasler autobiography [typescript] (1843-1897) discusses her life as an early convert from Switzerland to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who settled in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

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The Martha Spence Heywood diary [typescript] (1850-1856) details Heywood's (1812-1873) personal and family life in Utah.

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The Eleanor C. W. Jarvis diary [typescript] (1936) describes her family life in Utah's Dixie area between the years 1854-1923.

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The Sarah Studevant Leavitt history [typescript] deals mostly with the migration of her family from Canada, beginning in 1835, to Nauvoo, Illinois, and then to Salt Lake City, Utah.

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The John Doyle Lee papers (1876, 1949, 1982) comprise two categories of documents: typescripts of diaries and journals written by Lee between 1841 and 1851 and typescripts of documents written about Lee at later dates. The latter category includes book excerpts, a legal document, and a research paper.

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The Max Nolan papers (1980-1999) contains correspondence, manuscript notes, and news clippings.

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The Jean Rio Pearce diary (1851-1880) typescript describes her emigration from Liverpool, England, to Salt Lake City, Utah.

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This collection consists of a bound transcript of an 1840s diary kept by Mary Haskin Parker Richards (1823-1860), a LDS Church pioneer woman camped at Winter Quarters, Nebraska.

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The George Savage and Gladys Charles play typescript (1946-1947) is entitled "Verily I Do." This play was written by Savage and Charles for the American Educational Theatre Association's Manuscript Play Project.

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The Jan Shipps papers (1961-1979) consist of two papers written by Shipps entitled "Writings about Modern Mormonism: An Essay Review on Samuel W. Taylor's Latest Book" and "An 'Inside-Outsider' in Zion."

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The Ralph and Susannah Smith collection consists of typescripts of family histories. In addition to "A History of Susannah J. Smith, 1862," the collection contains "Excerpts from the Diary of Ralph Smith, Pioneer of 1855," and a biographical sketch of Ralph Smith.

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The Walter M. Stookey papers (1936-1951) consist of research materials and a manuscript entitled "Fatal Decision: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party" which was published in 1950.