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This collection contains two missionary diaries of John M. Bernhisel III from the period 1908-1909, during which he labored in Liverpool, England, for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bernhisel's diaries contain a daily log of his proselyting efforts in England, such as distributing religious tracts, holding 'street meetings,' managing his missionary finances, visiting fellow members of the LDS church, and attending meetings with other missionaries.

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This collection contains two diaries kept by Charles H. Bridges, Jr., during his LDS mission in Samoa, a journal with Bridges' Samoan language notes and studies, an 1892 Deseret News article discussing Bridges' work in Samoa, and a family group sheet with Bridges family's genealogical information.

Abstract Correspondence, diaries, subject files, and collected writings. Correspondence revolves around the Black priesthood issue of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and was primarily written in the 1960s and 1970s. Correspondents include Sonia Johnson, Samuel W. Taylor, Walter Martin, the General Authorities of the L.D.S. Church, as well as others involved in the Black Mormon priesthood issue. Material from Fitzgerald's personal life includes family diaries, including...

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This collection consists of one diary written by E. LaRetta Gibbons during her missionary travels for the LDS Church during the years 1933-1934.

Abstract This collection contains three types of material: first person accounts (diaries, journals, and autobiographies); second person accounts (biographies, life sketches, and local histories); and transcripts of interviews with pioneer Utahns. Includes material dealing with early Mormon history in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois; Mormon migration west; the march of the Mormon Battalion and its activities in California; Mormon pioneering in and travel to California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming,...

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his collection consists of six handwritten journals kept by W. F. Smith, mainly during his LDS Church mission to Germany (1902-1905)

Abstract Primarily diaries, including those kept as a Mormon missionary in Great Britain (1866-1868); during his presidency of the Cache Stake (1878-1881); his ordination as an L.D.S. Apostle (1879); and his work opening the Mexican Mission for the L.D.S. Church (1880-1881). The other major items are two letterbooks (1888-1890 and 1902-1903). The former is a prime source for background on the Mormon Church's colonization of Mexico. Miscellaneous items include scrapbooks detailing his release as an...