Archive: July, 2015
July 24, 2015 by Ryan K. Lee
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Tenth Ward Lumber and Building Association extracts of minutes (MSS SC 1321). The volume is handwritten extracts of minutes of meetings of the Tenth Ward Lumber and Building Association in Salt Lake City, Utah. The item is addressed to attorneys …
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Single-language and dual-language dictionaries were just as indispensable to writers and scholars of the Renaissance as they are today, though in the age of online dictionaries and Google Translate it may be harder to appreciate just how revolutionary printed reference books were in the late 15th century. Printing not only sped up the process of …
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July 17, 2015 by Ryan K. Lee
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions letter received (MSS SC 2197). The item is a five page unsigned handwritten letter dated October 2, 1833, to Reverend D. Green, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, from the chairman …
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July 10, 2015 by Ryan K. Lee
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: William Patterson McIntire daybook (Vault MSS 806). This volume, dated 1840-1856, mainly consists of notes for business transactions. Also included are notes from sermons of several prominent Church leaders, including Joseph Smith, Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Willard Richards, Oliver …
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Special Collections has a small but significant collection of rare Japanese materials from the Tokugawa period. Some items are currently on display in the library’s Guns, Scrolls, and Swords exhibit, and others have been featured in past exhibits as well. On occasion, we have the chance to add to the collection. Here are the most …
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July 3, 2015 by Ryan K. Lee
L. Tom Perry Special Collections is pleased to announce the availability of a new digitized collection: Augustus C. Dodge and George W. Jones letters (MSS 4046). The collection includes two letters, one from Augustus C. Dodge and the other from George W. Jones, from 1853. The letters both recommend John F. Kinney for the position of …
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Lewis Carroll’s beloved Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first issued by his London publisher, Macmillan, in July 1865. Before Alice Carroll had published a number of mathematical works under his true name, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He adopted his famous pseudonym in 1856 for the many poems, short prose, and even puzzles which he submitted to …
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