Ralph Elijah Cloward papers, 1911-1967
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Cloward, Ralph Elijah, 1883-1964
- Title
- Ralph Elijah Cloward papers
- Dates
- 1911-1967 (inclusive)19111967
- Quantity
- 3 linear feet
- Collection Number
- MS 0243
- Summary
- The Ralph Elijah Cloward papers (1911-1967) consists of biographical information, family correspondence, articles and correspondence by Cloward on medicine, religion, the United Nations, politics, education, military philosophy, China, communism, India, the LDS Church, and Samoa. Cloward (1883-1964) was a doctor who had a great concern for the people of Samoa, as well as other Polynesian people, and their welfare.
- Repository
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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
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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.
Two original letters have been removed and placed in Reserve. Photocopied versions are available in the collection for access purposes. Access to the originals must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the items if being used.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
Ralph Elijah Cloward (1883-1964) was born on 21 April 1883. He was raised in Utah as a member of the LDS Church. He spent three years, 1904-1907, serving a proselytizing mission in Samoa. His stay there created a life-long interest in the Samoan people and their welfare. Shortly after his return from the Pacific, Cloward married Virginia Staker and began classes at the University of Utah. After graduation Cloward went east to study medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Baltimore, Maryland. He graduated in 1913 and returned to Price, Utah to begin his practice.
The world unrest in the early 1900s caused Cloward to join the Medical Reserve Corps. He was commissioned a First Lieutenant on 16 July 1917. When the United Stated entered the first World War (WWI) his reserve group was activated. In August 1917, Cloward was sent to Fort Riley, Kansas for training. By June of the following year he was in Liverpool, England with the fourth Sanitary Train headed for France. While in France, Cloward worked near the front lines in various ambulance dressing stations as well as the field hospital at Cuisy before being promoted to Captain and commander of Ambulance Company number nineteen. He also served as commander of Ambulance Company number twenty-eight, in Germany, in early 1919. Captain Cloward was given an honorable discharge in 1919.
For four months in 1919 and 1920, Cloward took postgraduate courses in eye, ear, nose and throat (EENT) at Harvard University, before re-enlisting in the Army Medical Corps as a Captain. While in the Army he worked at his profession and took various military courses including those qualifying him as a flight surgeon. After transferring to Hawai'i, in 1926, Cloward resigned his commission to accept a position as an EENT specialist at The Clinic. He continued to practice medicine in Hawai'i, including doing necessary surgery at various island charitable hospitals until 1939. Cloward officially retired on 15 July 1939, because heart ailment and Parkinson's disease made it impossible for him to perform surgery.
After a period of travel, Cloward settled in Los Angeles, California, in 1940. He reintegrated himself with the LDS Church community there and eventually found himself in conflict with many of the teachings and practices of the church. He wrote numerous letters to LDS Church authorities seeking definitive historical and archeological proof that the Book of Mormon was actually the history of the people of ancient America. Cloward also conducted vigorous letter writing campaigns for socialized medicine, civil rights for the people of American Samoa, and other subjects he found of interest. He wrote many articles on these subjects although few were published. Having earlier been divorced from Virginia, Cloward married Elizabeth (Betty) Connoly in Honolulu, on 4 July 1939. In 1960, he and Betty, took a trip around the world. They visited many of the countries behind the Iron Curtain and wrote letters, to their family, filled with their impressions of people, their social, economic, and political systems, and the places they visited. Upon returning they settled in Honolulu. Cloward died in Honolulu on 7 May 1964, at the age of eighty-one.
Content Description
The Ralph Elijah Cloward papers (1911-1967) consists of correspondence and articles on subjects of interest to Cloward. The collection contains personal materials, as well as correspondence, articles and other information regarding China, Communism, education, India, the LDS Church, medicine, military philosophy, politics, religion, Samoa, the United Nations, and other topics of interest to Cloward and his colleagues. There are several correspondence regarding the topics mentioned above, with Sterling McMurrin, a former US Commissioner of Education, Israel A. Smith, the former president of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now the Community of Christ), James A. Pike, a controversial Catholic Bishop of California, and others.
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.
Administrative Information
Return to TopDetailed Description of the Collection
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Personal Materials, Correspondence, Articles, and Education
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Description: Personal Materials
This folder contains papers reflecting Cloward's personal life, including a chronology written in 1941, information on various licenses to practice medicine, and an address on Cloward family history given by Cloward at the celebration of the centennial of the Cloward family in Utah, and other related items.
Dates: 1911-1962Container: Box 1, Folder 1 -
Description: Cloward Family Correspondence
These correspondence describe various countries and people Cloward encountered in his trip around the world.
Dates: 1960Container: Box 1, Folder 2-3 -
Description: Genevieve McDermott Correspondence
These correspondence with Cloward express opinions regarding private and public education and religion.
Dates: 1956-1963Container: Box 1, Folder 4 -
Description: Charles A. Moore Buddhist Philosophy CorrespondenceDates: 1956-1959Container: Box 1, Folder 5
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Description: Herond H. Sheranian Correspondence
These correspondence are about religion, the LDS Church, and family events.
Dates: 1949-1962Container: Box 1, Folder 6 -
Description: C. Neils Taveres Justice and Law CorrespondenceDates: 1961-1963Container: Box 1, Folder 7
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Description: Personal CorrespondenceDates: 1948-1964Container: Box 1, Folder 8-12
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Description: Honolulu, Hawai'i, Star Bulletin Correspondence
This folder contains Cloward's opinions on issues of the day. Some of these letters were not meant for publication.
Dates: 1961-1964Container: Box 1, Folder 13-15 -
Description: Publication Correspondence
These letters express Cloward's opinions set to various publications in Hwawai'i and on the mainland.
Dates: 1945-1963Container: Box 1, Folder 16-17 -
Description: Cloward Articles
These folders contain articles submitted to for possible publication, as well as articles on a variety of subjects of interest to Cloward.
Container: Box 1, Folder 18-19 -
Description: Cloward Public and Private Education ArticlesContainer: Box 1, Folder 20
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Description: Education Articles
This folder contains articles from various magazines about education in the United States.
Container: Box 1, Folder 21 -
Description: Newspaper ClippingsContainer: Box 1, Folder 22
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Description: California Public Education Correspondence and InformationDates: 1962Container: Box 1, Folder 23
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Description: Hawai'i Public and Private Education Correspondence and InformationDates: 1962-1964Container: Box 1, Folder 24
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Description: Kamehameha Schools
This folder contains correspondence, information, and newspaper clippings about boys' and girls' schools in Hwawai'i and their system of instruction which stresses the Hawai'ian culture.
Dates: 1962Container: Box 1, Folder 25-26 -
Description: United States Department of Health, Educaiton, and Welfare
This folder contains correspondence and information about public support of education and the educational system in the United States.
Dates: 1961-1963Container: Box 1, Folder 27-28 -
Description: University of Hawai'i
This folder contains correspondence and newspaper clippings about the inauguration of Thomas H. Hamilton as university president. Cloward was asked by University of Utah president, A. Ray Olpin, to represent the University of Utah at the ceremonies. Included is Cloward's report on the inauguration.
Dates: 1963Container: Box 1, Folder 29-30
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Education, India, and Medicine
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Description: University of Hawai'i
This folder contains correspondence with Cloward and various staff members, about education.
Dates: 1961-1962Container: Box 2, Folder 1 -
Description: University of Hawai'i East-West Culture Center
These folders contain correspondence, reports, information, and newspaper clippings about the center and its funcitons.
Dates: 1961-1962Container: Box 2, Folder 2-4 -
Description: Philosopher's Conferences
These folders contain texts of papers read at the Philosophers' Conferences sponsored by the University of Hawai'i East-West Culture Center. Also included are notes, programs, and newspaper clippings.
Dates: 1959-1964Container: Box 2, Folder 5-6 -
Description: India Correspondence, Articles, and Information
These folders contain correspondence from Shri Kuldip Singh Aneja, about India, and include three hand painted greeting cards. Also included are correspondence about a possible visit to India, about Indian and Hindu philosophy, some lists of books about India, and other information.
Dates: 1959-1964Container: Box 2, Folder 7-9 -
Description: Medicine Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence, with various doctors and medical groups, about medical problems and statistics.
Dates: 1927-1963Container: Box 2, Folder 10 -
Description: Published Medicine Articles
This folder contains Cloward's articles on medical and diagnostic problems, which were published in the "Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of The Clinic."
Dates: 1925-1937Container: Box 2, Folder 11 -
Description: Unpublished Medicine Articles
These folders contain unpublished Cloward articles, about medical cases, medicine and society, and the use of tobacco.
Container: Box 2, Folder 12-14 -
Description: Ralph Bingham Cloward Medicine Articles
This folder contains published articles written by Cloward's son.
Dates: 1952-1957Container: Box 2, Folder 15 -
Description: Medicine ArticlesDates: 1962-1965Container: Box 2, Folder 16
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Description: Medicine Newspaper ClippingsContainer: Box 2, Folder 17
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Description: Americn Physicians Art Association
These folders contain materials from American Physicians Art Association, of which Cloward was a member. Included are correspondence about the yearly exhibits and prizes won by Cloward, newsletters, and catalogues of the annual exhibits.
Dates: 1944-1949Container: Box 2, Folder 18-20 -
Description: American Physicians Literary Guild
This folder contains correspondence about publishing "The White Rose of England," a book written by Dr. and Mrs. Cloward. A summary of the book is included.
Dates: 1947-1949Container: Box 2, Folder 21 -
Description: Cloward's Hawai'i Medical Practice Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence concerning Cloward's medical practice at "The Clinic" in Hawai'i as well as his assignments to work in certain hospitals by the territorial board of health.
Dates: 1932-1939Container: Box 2, Folder 22 -
Description: Midwinter Clinical Course
This folder contains rosters for a course in ophthalmology and otolaryngology.
Dates: 1934-1938Container: Box 2, Folder 23 -
Description: Phi Beta Pi Medical Fraternity Correspondence and NewslettersContainer: Box 2, Folder 24
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Medicine and Military Philosophy
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Description: Socialized Medicine CorrespondenceDates: 1949-1963Container: Box 3, Folder 1
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Description: Cloward Socialized Medicine Articles
These folders also Cloward's "The Confessions of a Doctor," and "Should the State Control the Practice of Medicine?"
Container: Box 3, Folder 2-4 -
Description: Socialized Medicine and Great Britain Medical System ArticlesDates: 1959-1962Container: Box 3, Folder 5-8
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Description: University of Maryland Alumni Association Correspondence
This folder also contains Cloward's summary of his life since graduation.
Dates: 1963Container: Box 3, Folder 9 -
Description: Cloward's University of Minnesota Anatomy DrawingsContainer: Box 3, Folder 10
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Description: Utah State Legislature Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence between Cloward and members of the Utah State Legislature, to provide funding to establish hospitals in each county in the state. A copy of the proposed bill is included.
Dates: 1916-1917Container: Box 3, Folder 11 -
Description: Military Order of the World Wars Correspondence
These folders also contain a series of correspondence between Cloward and military authorities at Fort Shafter, Hawai'i, concerning his access to the post for meetings of the group. Also included are some rosters, and pamphlets issued by the organization.
Dates: 1961-1966Container: Box 3, Folder 12-16 -
Description: National Fourth Infantry (IVY) Division Association
This folder contains Clwoard's dues card and a letter acknowledging payment.
Dates: 1964Container: Box 3, Folder 17 -
Description: Cloward WWI Military Records
These folders contain Clowards special orders, reports, and other information about his military career in the medical corps.
Dates: 1917-1926Container: Box 3, Folder 18-19 -
Description: Tripler Hospital Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence about the excellent medical treatment Cloward received there, and about care of Samoans living in Hawai'i.
Dates: 1957-1961Container: Box 3, Folder 20 -
Description: Veterans Administration and Disability Pension CorrespondenceDates: 1941-1962Container: Box 3, Folder 21-22
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Description: Cloward Philosophy Articles
These folder contain Cloward's aritcles on various types of philosophy, charts on branches of philosophy, and newspaper clippings.
Container: Box 3, Folder 23-24
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Politics
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Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Foreign Policy CorrespondenceDates: 1958Container: Box 4, Folder 1
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Description: Hiram L. Fong, Socialized Medicine and Medicare CorrespondenceDates: 1962Container: Box 4, Folder 2
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Description: J. William Fullbright, Communism and Soman Scholarship CorrespondenceDates: 1961Container: Box 4, Folder 3
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Description: Thomas P. Gill, Campaign Articles and CorrespondenceDates: 1962-1963Container: Box 4, Folder 4-6
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Description: Daniel K. Inouye, Somoa, National Debt, and Political Issues CorrespondenceDates: 1962-1964Container: Box 4, Folder 7
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Description: John F. Kennedy, Somoa and Socialized Medicine CorrespondenceDates: 1961-1962Container: Box 4, Folder 8
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Description: Oren E. Long, Somoa, Socialized Medicine, Aging, and Education CorrespondencesDates: 1961-1962Container: Box 4, Folder 9
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Description: Wayne Morse, Samoa CorrespondenceDates: 1960-1961Container: Box 4, Folder 10
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Description: Richard M. Nixon Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence about Cloward's paper, entitled, "The Church and the State." One original letter has been removed and placed in Reserve. A photocopied version is available in the collection for access purposes. Access to the original must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the item if being used.
Dates: 1959Container: Box 4, Folder 11 -
Description: James Roosevelt, Israel, Education, Civil Rights, Samoa, and Socialized Medicine CorrespondenceDates: 1955-1963Container: Box 4, Folder 12-16
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Description: Various Political Figures CorrespondenceDates: 1940-1963Container: Box 4, Folder 17
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Description: China ArticlesDates: 1961-1967Container: Box 4, Folder 18
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Description: Communism Correspondence and Artilces
These folders contains correspondence and magazine articles about the Alger Hiss case. There are also some of Cloward's communism articles.
Dates: 1956-1967Container: Box 4, Folder 19-21 -
Description: Cloward, Freedom of the Press ArticlesDates: 1962-1964Container: Box 4, Folder 22-23
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Description: Israel Correspondence
These folders contain correspondence and statements about Arab-Jewish relations and the state of Israel with Henry A. Wallace and various Jewish leaders. Also included are articles written by Cloward.
Dates: 1948-1962Container: Box 4, Folder 24-25 -
Description: Cloward, Segregation Articles
This folder contains articles about Cloward's opposition to racial segregation, from a scientific standpoint.
Container: Box 4, Folder 26 -
Description: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ArticlesContainer: Box 4, Folder 27-30
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Description: Cloward, United Nations Articles
These folders includ Cloward's "Red China and the United Nations," "United Nations and International Communism," and "United Nations in World Affairs," as well as other information and articles.
Container: Box 4, Folder 31-34 -
Description: United States Government and Legislation ArticlesDates: 1961-1962Container: Box 4, Folder 35
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Religion
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Description: Charles S. Casassa Correspondence
Casassa was the president of Loyola University of Los Angeles. These correspondence are about the controversy between public secular education and private religious education.
Dates: 1955Container: Box 5, Folder 1 -
Description: Robert R. Mackey Correspondence
Mackey was president of the Catholic Chaminade College of Honolulu. These correspondence are about public secular eduation and private religious educaiton.
Dates: 1961-1963Container: Box 5, Folder 2 -
Description: James A. Pike Correspondence
Pike was the Catholic Bishop of California and a controversial figure in the Catholic Church. These correspondence are about religious subjects, and include newspaper clippings about Pike.
Dates: 1957-1960Container: Box 5, Folder 3 -
Description: Cloward and Clergymen CorrespondenceDates: 1949-1963Container: Box 5, Folder 4
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Description: Cloward Religion Articles
Among the articles in these folders are, "The Evolution of Religion and Architecture," "Prologominia to the Religions of India," and "The State and the Church."
Container: Box 5, Folder 5-9 -
Description: Religion Statements ArticlesContainer: Box 5, Folder 10-11
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Description: John T. Bernhard Correspondence
These correspondence concern religious philosophy and the theology of the LDS Church.
Dates: 1947-1952Container: Box 5, Folder 12 -
Description: Adam S. Bennion Correspondence
This folder contains a letter to Bennion criticizing his conduct as a speaker in an LDS Church meeting.
Dates: 1953Container: Box 5, Folder 13 -
Description: Hugh B. Brown Correspondence
These correspondence concern policies and practices of the LDS Church, and proof that the Book of Mormon was actually translated by Joseph Smith in the manner in which the chruch claims.
Dates: 1952-1963Container: Box 5, Folder 14 -
Description: Richard Evans Correspondence
This series of letters concerns the program "The Spoken Word" in which Cloward takes Evans to task for his editorials and offers his own opinions on various religious subjects, especially concerning the LDS Church.
Dates: 1941-1959Container: Box 5, Folder 15 -
Description: Wells M. Jakeman Correspondence
Jakeman was a professor of archaeology at Brigham Young University. These correspondence concern archaeological proofs of the Book of Mormon.
Dates: 1955-1958Container: Box 5, Folder 16 -
Description: David O. McKay Correspondence
These correspondence concern church service conduct, and the Book of Mormon. One original letter has been removed and placed in Reserve. A photocopied version is available in the collection for access purposes. Access to the original must be given by the Manuscripts Curator and by appointment. An archivist must remain with the item if being used.
Dates: 1952-1955Container: Box 5, Folder 17 -
Description: Sterling McMurrin Correspondence
McMurrin was a member of the Department of Philosopy at the University of Utah, and he was the United States commissioner of Education. These correspondence discuss religious philosophy, the Book of Mormon, the LDS Church, and religious influence in public educaiton, as well as other subjects of interest to both McMurrin and Cloward.
Dates: 1947-1963Container: Box 5, Folder 18-19 -
Description: Hugh Nibley Correspondence
These correspondence concern anthropological proofs of the Book of Mormon.
Dates: 1950-1956Container: Box 5, Folder 20 -
Description: LeGrande Richards Correspondence
These correspondence are about the Book of Mormon and the LDS religion.
Dates: 1958-1962Container: Box 5, Folder 21 -
Description: Israel A. Smith Correspondence
Smith was the president of the Reorganized Churdch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now the Community of Christ). These correspondence concern the Book of Mormon. The correspondence open amicably but degenerates into controlled hostility on both sides.
Dates: 1955Container: Box 5, Folder 22 -
Description: John L. Sorenson Correspondence
These correspondence are concerned with the authenticity of the Book of Mormon and include a paper on Central American archaeology, written by Sorenson.
Dates: 1956Container: Box 5, Folder 23 -
Description: Kimball Young Correspondence
Young was a professor of sociology at Northwestern University. These correspondence are concerned with historical or archaeological evidence to support the Book of Mormon.
Dates: 1955Container: Box 5, Folder 24 -
Description: Levi Edgar Young Correspondence
These correspondence are concerned with religious philosophy and the dietary rules of the "Word of Wisdom."
Dates: 1950-1956Container: Box 5, Folder 25 -
Description: Book of Mormon Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence between Cloward and various scholars seeking information about historical or archaeological evidence which would prove or disprove the story offered by the Book of Mormon.
Dates: 1950-1964Container: Box 5, Folder 26 -
Description: Improvement Era Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence and a "letter to the editor" about an article on the "Word of Wisdom" which was submitted by Cloward and rejected for publication.
Dates: 1962-1963Container: Box 5, Folder 27 -
Description: Los Angles Stake Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence between Cloward and his local church leaders about tithing, the conduct of the church meetings, and other religious concerns. Also included are two of Cloward's temple recommends.
Dates: 1948-1958Container: Box 5, Folder 28 -
Description: Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence about the membership and financial status of the LDS Church in Hawai'i, and the resignation of Ernest L. Wilkinson as president of Brigham Young University to seek the Republican Party nomination to stand for the United States Senate for Utah.
Dates: 1958-1964Container: Box 5, Folder 29 -
Description: Cloward LDS Articles
This folder contains Cloward's articles about the LDS Church, including "More Mormon 'Gobble Dy Gook'," written in response to an article in magazine titled "Memo from a Mormon," about the Mormon Church policy toward Blacks.
Container: Box 5, Folder 30-31 -
Description: Cloward Religious Speech
This folder contains remarks and short addresses, made by Cloward, on religious subjects at various LDS Church functions.
Container: Box 5, Folder 32 -
Description: Sterling McMurrin Speech Notes and Information
These are notes and copies of McMurrin's addresses "The Patterns of Our Religious Faiths," and "Higher Education and Human Values" as well as some newspaper clippings.
Container: Box 5, Folder 33 -
Description: Humanist World Digest Correspondence
These folders contain letters to the editor about articles submitted by Cloward, and includes copies of articles and publications.
Dates: 1951-1963Container: Box 5, Folder 34-35 -
Description: Masonic Order Correspondence
This folder contains correspondence about Masonic and Mormon Temple ceremonies, and an Easter speech written by Cloward for a Mormon friend.
Container: Box 5, Folder 36
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Samoa
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Description: John Fox, Punahou School, and Education CorrespondenceDates: 1961-1963Container: Box 6, Folder 1
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Description: H. Rex Lee Correspondence
These correspondence, between Cloward and the governor of American Samoa, are about public improvements, economics, and education.
Dates: 1961-1963Container: Box 6, Folder 2 -
Description: Albert Lolotai Correspondence
These correspondence are about the social, economic, and political future of Samoa, and Lolotai's political aspirations in Samoa.
Dates: 1947-1963Container: Box 6, Folder 3 -
Description: The Church College of Hawai'i Correspondence
These correspondence are about the Samoans attending this LDS sponsored, private school.
Dates: 1961Container: Box 6, Folder 4 -
Description: United States Department of Interior Correspondence
These correspondence are about the situation in Samoa and United States laws as applied to American Samoa.
Dates: 1961-1964Container: Box 6, Folder 5 -
Description: Samoa Economics, Politics, and Education CorrespondenceDates: 1961-1963Container: Box 6, Folder 6
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Description: Cloward, Samoa ArticlesContainer: Box 6, Folder 7
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Description: Samoa ArticlesContainer: Box 6, Folder 8-9
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Subject Terms
- Education
Personal Names
- Cloward, Ralph Elijah, 1883-1964--Archives
Form or Genre Terms
- Correspondence
