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Victor W. Jorgensen papers, circa 1870-1970s

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Jorgensen, Victor W.
Title
Victor W. Jorgensen papers
Dates
circa 1870-1970s (inclusive)
Quantity
5 linear feet
Collection Number
ACCN 1416
Summary
The Victor W. Jorgensen papers (circa 1870-1970s) consist of photocpies of Jorgensen's research files concerning LDS polygamy.
Repository
University of Utah Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library
University of Utah
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City, UT
84112-0860

Telephone: 8015818863
special@library.utah.edu
Access Restrictions

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

Victor W. Jorgensen's interest in the history of polygamy during the early years of the LDS Church led him to write a book on the subject, entitled Solemn Covenant. It is unclear whether this book was published or not.

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Content Description

The Victor W. Jorgensen papers (circa 1870-1970s) consist of photocpies of Jorgensen's research files concerning LDS polygamy.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library's Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.

Preferred Citation

Collection Name, Collection Number, Box Number, Folder Number. Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Gift of Victor W. Jorgensen.

Processing Note

Processed by Manuscripts staff in 1994.

Separated Materials

Photographs (P0614) and audio cassette tapes of interviews (A0488) transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Interviews and Journals

    • Description: Oral History Interview Transcript with Florence Ivins Hyde
      Dates: August 18
      Container: Box 1, Folder 1-3
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Oral History Interview Transcript with Florence Ivins Hyde
      Dates: August 19
      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Oral History Interview Transcript with W. Earnest Young
      Dates: 1972 August 4
      Container: Box 1, Folder 5-6
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Oral History Interview Transcript with Hilda B. Farr
      Dates: 1972 January 16
      Container: Box 1, Folder 7-8
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Oral History Interview Transcript with Grant Ivins
      Dates: 1972 July 18
      Container: Box 1, Folder 9-11
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Oral History Interview Transcript with William L. Woolf
      Dates: September 7
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Excerpts from the Journals of Abraham Cannon
      Container: Box 1, Folder 13-20
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Excerpts from the Journals of Reed Smoot
      Container: Box 1, Folder 21-22
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Excerpts from the Journals of Joseph W. Musser
      Container: Box 1, Folder 23
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Journal of Joseph White Musser
      Container: Box 1, Folder 24-29
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Excerpts from the Journal of Orson P. Brown
      Container: Box 1, Folder 30
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Interviews with Nettie M. Taylor
      Container: Box 1, Folder 31-34
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Addenda #1 about John and Nettie M. Taylor
      Container: Box 1, Folder 35
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Addenda #2 about John Taylor
      Container: Box 1, Folder 36
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Summary of a Discussion with Nettie M. Taylor
      Dates: 1949 June
      Container: Box 1, Folder 37
      Location: Interviews and Journals
    • Description: Taylor Correspondence and Notes
      Container: Box 1, Folder 38-42
      Location: Interviews and Journals

  • Individual Histories

    • Description: Personal history of Heber Allen
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Carl Ashby Badger
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2-3
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Edwin T. Bennion
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Heber Bennion
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5-7
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Theodore Brandley
      Container: Box 2, Folder 8
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal information on George Brimhall
      Container: Box 2, Folder 9
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Richard D. Brown
      Container: Box 2, Folder 10
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of John F. Burton
      Container: Box 2, Folder 11
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Abraham Cannon
      Container: Box 2, Folder 12
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Angus J. Cannon
      Container: Box 2, Folder 13
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of George M. Cannon
      Container: Box 2, Folder 14
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of David Cazier
      Container: Box 2, Folder 15
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Thomas Chamberlain III
      Container: Box 2, Folder 16
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Rudger Clawson
      Container: Box 2, Folder 17-20
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Mattias F. Cowley
      Container: Box 2, Folder 21-23
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Joseph Henry Dean
      Container: Box 2, Folder 24
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Appollos G. Driggs
      Container: Box 2, Folder 25
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Jabez Durfee
      Container: Box 2, Folder 26
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of David Eccles
      Container: Box 2, Folder 27-30
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Edwin Evans
      Container: Box 2, Folder 31
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Edward C. Eyring
      Container: Box 2, Folder 32
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Heber E. Farr
      Container: Box 2, Folder 33
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of David P. Felt
      Container: Box 2, Folder 34
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Isaac Henry Grace
      Container: Box 2, Folder 35
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of George William Hardy
      Container: Box 2, Folder 36
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Arthur W. Hart
      Container: Box 2, Folder 37
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Victor Charles Hegsted
      Container: Box 2, Folder 38
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of George Francis Hickman
      Container: Box 2, Folder 39
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Alpha J. Higgs
      Container: Box 2, Folder 40
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Ferdinand Friis Hintze and Family
      Container: Box 2, Folder 41-44
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Oliver C. Hoskins
      Container: Box 2, Folder 45
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Anthony W. Ivins
      Container: Box 3, Folder 1-3
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Stanley S. Ivins
      Container: Box 3, Folder 4
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Abia E. Johnson
      Container: Box 3, Folder 5
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Louis A. Kelsch
      Container: Box 3, Folder 6
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Ogden Kraut
      Container: Box 3, Folder 7-8
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Rasmus Larsen
      Container: Box 3, Folder 9
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Elam Wells McBride
      Container: Box 3, Folder 10
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Henry M. McCune
      Container: Box 3, Folder 11
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Marriner Wook Merrill
      Container: Box 3, Folder 12
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Dan Muir
      Container: Box 3, Folder 13
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Joseph White Musser
      Container: Box 3, Folder 14
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Christian F. Olsen
      Container: Box 3, Folder 15
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Isaac Washington Pierce
      Container: Box 3, Folder 16
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Lemuell Hurdison Redd
      Container: Box 3, Folder 17
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Benjamin E. Rich
      Container: Box 3, Folder 18
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Brigham H. Roberts
      Container: Box 3, Folder 19
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Miles A. Romney
      Container: Box 3, Folder 20
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Miles P. Romney
      Container: Box 3, Folder 21
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of William G. Sears
      Container: Box 3, Folder 22
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of William H. Smart
      Container: Box 3, Folder 23
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Jesse Nathaniel Smith
      Container: Box 3, Folder 24
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of John Henry Smith
      Container: Box 3, Folder 25
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Joseph F. Smith
      Container: Box 3, Folder 26
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Reed Smoot
      Container: Box 3, Folder 27
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Walter Steed
      Container: Box 3, Folder 28
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Henry S. Tanner
      Container: Box 3, Folder 29
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of Joseph Marion Tanner
      Container: Box 3, Folder 30
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of John Whittaker Taylor
      Container: Box 3, Folder 31-32
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history of George Teasdale
      Container: Box 3, Folder 33-37
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history James Thompson
      Container: Box 3, Folder 38
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history Jaren Tolman
      Container: Box 3, Folder 39
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history Charles Walker
      Container: Box 3, Folder 40
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history Hugh Watson
      Container: Box 3, Folder 41
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history John M. Whitaker
      Container: Box 3, Folder 42
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history John S. White
      Container: Box 3, Folder 43
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history Abraham Wookruff
      Container: Box 3, Folder 44
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history Wilford Woodruff
      Container: Box 3, Folder 45
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history John W. Woolley
      Container: Box 3, Folder 46
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history Samuel E. Woolley
      Container: Box 3, Folder 47
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history John H. Wyatt
      Container: Box 3, Folder 48
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Personal history Brigham Young, Jr.
      Container: Box 3, Folder 49
      Location: Individual Histories
    • Description: Miscellaneous personal histories
      Container: Box 3, Folder 50-51
      Location: Individual Histories

  • Family Group Sheets

    • Description: Isaac Alldredge to Samuel Frederick Ball
      Container: Box 4, Folder 1
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Israel Barlow III to Joseph Charles Bentley
      Container: Box 4, Folder 2
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Parley Pratt Bingham to Jens Christian Larsen Breinholt
      Container: Box 4, Folder 3
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: George Henry Brimhall to William Walton Burton
      Container: Box 4, Folder 4
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Myron Wallace Butler to George Mousley Cannon
      Container: Box 4, Folder 5
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: George Quayle Cannon to David Cazier
      Container: Box 4, Folder 6
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Thomas Chamberlain III to Benjamin Cluff
      Container: Box 4, Folder 7
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Heber Manasseh Cluff to James Brace Darton
      Container: Box 4, Folder 8
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Joseph Henry Dean to Jabez Erastus Durfee
      Container: Box 4, Folder 9
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Joel Sextus Eagar to Heber Erastus Farr
      Container: Box 4, Folder 10
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Lorin Farr to Isaac Henry Grace
      Container: Box 4, Folder 11
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Joseph Hyrum Grant to Arthur William Hart
      Container: Box 4, Folder 12
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: David Mears Hawkins to James Hendry
      Container: Box 4, Folder 13
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: George Francis Hickman to James Martin Hurst
      Container: Box 4, Folder 14
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Philip Hurst to David Jensen
      Container: Box 4, Folder 15
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: James Jensen to Daniel Brooks Jones
      Container: Box 4, Folder 16
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Fredrick William Jones Jr. to Bent Rolfsen Larsen
      Container: Box 4, Folder 17
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Rasmus Morgens Larsen to Warren Longhurst
      Container: Box 4, Folder 18
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Walter Clisbee Lyman to Albert Mortimer Merrill
      Container: Box 4, Folder 19
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Charles Edward Merrill to Francis Julius Mortensen
      Container: Box 4, Folder 20
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Hyrum Knud Mortensen to Anders Herman Nordberg
      Container: Box 4, Folder 21
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: William Cole Ockey to George Myron Porter
      Container: Box 4, Folder 22
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Helaman Pratt to Lemuel Hardison Redd
      Container: Box 4, Folder 23
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Charles Edmund Richardson to Samuel John Robinson
      Container: Box 4, Folder 24
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: George Samuel Romney to Peter James Sanders
      Container: Box 4, Folder 25
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: William Franklin Sanders to William Henry Smart
      Container: Box 4, Folder 26
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: John Taylor Smellie to Merrit Stanley
      Container: Box 4, Folder 27
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Walter William Steed to John Ulrich Stucki
      Container: Box 4, Folder 28
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Joseph William Summerhays to John Wittaker Taylor
      Container: Box 4, Folder 29
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: George Teasdale to Judson Tolman
      Container: Box 4, Folder 30
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Edward Franklin Turley to John Thomas Whetten
      Container: Box 4, Folder 31
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Charles Whipple to Edward James Wood
      Container: Box 4, Folder 32
      Location: Family Group Sheets
    • Description: Abraham Owen Woodruff to Isaac Zundel
      Container: Box 4, Folder 33
      Location: Family Group Sheets

  • Portions of the Kimball Young collection and contributive papers

  • Miscellaneous materials

    • Description: H. Grant Ivins, "Polygamy In Mexico As Practiced By The Mormon Church"
      Container: Box 6, Folder 1-5
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Excerpts from the Nauvoo Temple Records
      Container: Box 6, Folder 6
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Case report of Brigham H. Roberts
      Container: Box 6, Folder 7
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: B. Carmon Hardy, "Self Blame And The Manifesto"
      Container: Box 6, Folder 8
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Addendum #3 about names to check on marriages after the Manifesto
      Container: Box 6, Folder 9-10
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Attitudes towards post-Manifesto marriages

      An essay from Kenneth L. Cannon II.

      Container: Box 6, Folder 11-12
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: The attitude of some toward polygamy in 1909
      Container: Box 6, Folder 13
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Attitude of some Church members toward the Manifesto
      Container: Box 6, Folder 14
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Attitude of the Church Toward Adherence to The Manifesto
      Container: Box 6, Folder 15
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Polygamy records
      Dates: 1889
      Container: Box 6, Folder 16
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Information on miscellaneous Mormon families in Mexican colonies
      Container: Box 6, Folder 17
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Jessie L. Embry, "Exiles For The Principle: LDS Polygamy In Canada"
      Container: Box 6, Folder 18
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Chris Nelson, "Mormon Polygamy In Mexico"
      Container: Box 6, Folder 19
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Information on the 1890 Manifesto
      Container: Box 6, Folder 20-21
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Lists of Tribune articles and suspected Manifesto violators
      Container: Box 6, Folder 22-23
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Report of the Utah Commission to the Secretary of the Interior
      Container: Box 6, Folder 24
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Amnesty petition
      Container: Box 6, Folder 25
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Fundamentalists opinions
      Container: Box 6, Folder 26
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: The Endowment House
      Container: Box 6, Folder 27
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Interviews and permission sheets
      Container: Box 6, Folder 28
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Information from Fred Collier
      Container: Box 6, Folder 29-32
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Statistics of post-Manifesto polygamy
      Container: Box 6, Folder 33-36
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Mexican Ward records
      Container: Box 7, Folder 1-3
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Juarez High Council minutes
      Container: Box 7, Folder 4
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Forest Dale Ward census
      Container: Box 7, Folder 5
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Information from Mike Quinn
      Container: Box 7, Folder 6-7
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Information on Apostles taking wives since the Manifesto
      Container: Box 7, Folder 8-9
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Official attitudes towards new polygamy
      Container: Box 7, Folder 10-11
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Reed Smoot hearings
      Container: Box 7, Folder 12
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Lorin Harmer hearings
      Container: Box 7, Folder 13-14
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Salt Lake Tribune editorials
      Container: Box 7, Folder 15-17
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of Morelos Ward members
      Dates: 1901-1909
      Container: Box 7, Folder 18
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of Morelos Ward members
      Dates: 1909-1912
      Container: Box 7, Folder 19
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of families that lived in Diaz Colony
      Dates: 1884-1912
      Container: Box 7, Folder 20
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of Diaz Colony members
      Dates: 1907-1912
      Container: Box 7, Folder 21
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of Juarez Colony members
      Dates: 1887-1904
      Container: Box 7, Folder 22
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of children in Juarez Colony
      Dates: 1904-1913
      Container: Box 7, Folder 23
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Juarez Stake early pioneer settlers census
      Dates: 1989
      Container: Box 7, Folder 24-25
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of San Jose Colony members
      Dates: 1911-1912
      Container: Box 7, Folder 26
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of Pacheco Colony members
      Dates: 1907-1911
      Container: Box 7, Folder 27
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: List of children born in Salt Lake City
      Dates: 1870-1912
      Container: Box 7, Folder 28
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Excerpts from Polygamy In Utah And Surrounding Area Since...

      A thesis presented to the Department of History at Brigham Young University.

      Container: Box 7, Folder 29-30
      Location: Miscellaneous materials
    • Description: Photograph photocopies
      Container: Box 7, Folder 31
      Location: Miscellaneous materials

  • Published materials and theses

    • Description: Richard D. Poll, "The Mormon Question Enters National Politics, 1850-1856" in The Utah Historical Quarterly
      Container: Box 8, Folder 1
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Reed Smoot, "The Passing of Polygamy" in The North American Review
      Container: Box 8, Folder 2
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: "Mr. Roosevelt to the Mormons" in Improvement Era
      Container: Box 8, Folder 3
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Frank Cannon, "The New Polygamy" in Everybody's Magazine
      Container: Box 8, Folder 4
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Stanley Ivins, "Notes On Mormon Polygamy" in Western Humanities
      Container: Box 8, Folder 5
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Davis Bitton, "The B.H. Roberts Case Of 1898-1900"
      Container: Box 8, Folder 6
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Burton Hendrick, "The Mormon Revival Of Polygamy" in McClure's Magazine
      Container: Box 8, Folder 7
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Two books concerning John W. Taylor

      The Trials for the Membership of John W. Taylor and Mathaias F. Cowley; 1886 Revelation: A Revelation of the Lord to John Taylor.

      Dates: 1963
      Container: Box 8, Folder 8
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Doctrine of the Priesthood
      Dates: 1981-1988
      Container: Box 8, Folder 9-12
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Plurality of Wives
      Container: Box 8, Folder 13
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Truth
      Dates: 1950-1955
      Container: Box 8, Folder 14-27
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Christa Marie Sophie Ranglack Nelson, "Mormon Polygamy In Mexico"
      Container: Box 8, Folder 28-31
      Location: Published materials and theses
    • Description: Mormon Apostles Taylor And Cowley: Out Of Harmony With Their Quorum?
      Dates: 1976
      Container: Box 8, Folder 32-38
      Location: Published materials and theses

  • Solemn Covenant, rough draft

  • Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage, final draft

Finding aid created by Manuscripts Division staff.
1994 (last modified: 2020)

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