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This collection consists of the extensive research papers of Ernest Mahan, that he compiled during the 1930s while preparing a biography on Joseph Smith Jr. For unknown reasons, the biography was never completed.

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Contains various documents relating to the Martin Harris Pageant, a production of the LDS musical play Martin Harris: The Man Who Knew, held annually in Clarkston, Utah. Includes minutes, agendas, reports, budgets, correspondence, missionary efforts, ticket requests, programs, publicity, scripts, and music.

Abstract Correspondence to Peter Maughan and to his wife, Mary Ann Weston Maughan, tickets, certificates, and miscellaneous personal papers of the Maughans. Most significant correspondent is Brigham Young. Also includes Mary Ann Weston Maughan's midwife record (1853-1892), rules and regulations for pupils in the Brigham Young College (Logan, Utah), record of the city lots in Tooele, Utah (June 1853), Wilford Woodruf circular to the female Relief Societies (Aug. 1877), and the prospectus for the...

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This collection consists of twelve love letters written to Hortense McEwen by three different men from 1911 through 1913. These letters reveal courtship patterns within the Latter-day Saints' culture during this time period and document the missionary work of John E. Excell.

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Notes, correspondence, newspaper articles, genealogical data, and religious documents related to Lorin Asa Merrill, his wife, children, and posterity, covering the years 1876 to 1986.

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Materials accumulated while writing a dissertation of Reed Smoot, including correspondence, clippings, and excerpts from published information. Also includes drafts and a finished copy of the dissertation.

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Collection contains photocopies of petitions and affidavits relating to Mormon difficulties in Missouri from 1831 to 1839 that were submitted to the House Judiciary Committee seeking redress for damages done in Missouri. Originals are housed in the National Archives

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Unedited manuscript of the book.

Abstract The collection pertains to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), its legislation, ratification process, and the many other complex issues involving the pro-ERA movement and anti-ERA groups. The collection deals, for the most part, with Alice Allred Pottmyer's, Hazel Davis Rigby's, and Maida Rust Withers's involvement in the organization Mormons for ERA, the organization itself, and the involvement of Mormons for ERA in the national debate over ERA. A substantial amount of material relates to The...

Abstract Materials concerning the Church of Firstborn, commonly known as the Morrisites. Includes oral history transcripts, correspondence, copies of book sections and magazine articles, copies of Morrisite tracts and pamphlets, Morris' correspondence to Brigham Young, membership rolls, Court and Council (Church governing bodies) records, manuscript materials from the St. Ann's Hill records, and a significant collection of the correspondence of George Williams (Prophet Cainan). Several items are in...