Archive: "British Mission" Tag
September 19, 2022 by Ryan K. Lee •
British Mission,
Elizabeth Wood Leigh,
Ella Berry Leigh,
family histories,
missionary diaries,
scrapbooks,
Southern States Mission,
Tennessee,
Wales,
William David Leigh,
William Shanks Berry
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a newly digitized collection: Leigh and Berry family papers (MSS 3319). This collection contains various papers related to the family of William David Leigh and Elizabeth Wood, and the family of William Shanks Berry and Rebecca Rocena Beck. Includes a journal and other …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Claudius V. Spencer diary (MSS 4042). This diary records Spencer’s overland journey from Salt Lake City, Utah to Liverpool, England between April 22, 1850 to September 19, 1850, on his way to serving a mission for The Church of Jesus …
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May 4, 2020 by Ryan K. Lee •
Alvin Benson,
British Mission,
California Mission,
England,
Family history,
journals,
letters,
Parowan,
Phoebe Benson,
Richard Benson,
Utah
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Lorraine Rowley Thompson collection on Benson family (MSS 8555). This collection contains journals and correspondence related to the Richard and Phoebe Benson family. Includes journals kept by Richard during his Mormon missions to England, and letters he wrote to …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Orson Pratt letter to Nathaniel H. Felt. This item is a handwritten and signed letter, dated December 11, 1866, written from Liverpool, England, on “Latter-Day Saints’ European Printing, Publishing, and Emigration Office” letterhead. It is a brief letter to Felt, who …
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February 19, 2018 by Ryan K. Lee •
British Mission,
correspondence,
diaries,
England,
Hopi Indians,
John Steele,
Las Vegas,
missionary diaries,
Mormon Battalion,
Nevada,
Paiute Indians,
Parowan,
Toquerville,
Utah
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: John Steele papers (Vault MSS 528). This collection contains three boxes full of diaries, notes, correspondence, dictionaries, surveys, bonds, certificates, horoscopes, and military orders related to a prominent pioneer of southern Utah and Nevada. The correspondence was to and from John …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: George Peacock diary (MSS 1228). In this handwritten diary, Peacock writes about his mission for the Mormon Church in Scotland, his work as a judge and postmaster, and his life in Sanpete County, Utah. He also relates many incidents …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Andrew Locy Rogers missionary diary (MSS 6179). The diary documents Rogers’ service in the British Mission, where he served in Ireland and Scotland. His diary documents his experiences in a series of communities from 1909-1910, and chronicles experiences with mission …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: William Harrison Maughan missionary journal (MSS 4109). This journal was kept by Maughan from February 1875 to July 1876 while serving a mission in England for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1874 to 1876. It describes …
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L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Robert Lang Campbell journal (Vault MSS 496). The collection contains Campbell’s original handwritten journal where he describes his missionary experiences in Scotland; emigration to Nauvoo, Illinois; experiences traveling to Utah as a Mormon pioneer; and duties as a Mormon Church …
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