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Contains 26 Results:
Sarah Maria Davis Thatcher, Diary, 1878-1887
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
The diary of Sarah Thatcher includes irregular entries from 1878 to 1887. Only 44 pages of the 177 page ledger book are filled with diary entries. On the five succeeding pages there are several items posted to the pages. These are: a certificate of proficiency in the Tonic Sol'Fa Method of singing dated February 12, 1864; an undated sheet of paper labeled "Flour Acct;" a newspaper clipping (undated) entitled...
Dates:
1878-1887
Sarah Maria Davis Thatcher Diary, Typescript
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
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From the Collection:
The Paul Thatcher family papers (1809-1972) contain diaries, letters, biographies, and reminiscences from two prominent families of Utah, the Thatcher's of Logan and the Smoot's of Provo. The record is one of personal ideas, feelings, and conflicts rather than daily circumstances, business affairs, or local politics. In particular, the diary of Sarah Maria Davis Thatcher and the letters of Olive Smoot Bean make a fine study of Mormon women in late nineteenth century Utah. There are two...
Dates:
1809-1972
"Mind Culture, and the Discipline of the Heart, Mind and Hand: an Address by Apostle Moses Thatcher", 1895
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Paul Thatcher family papers (1809-1972) contain diaries, letters, biographies, and reminiscences from two prominent families of Utah, the Thatcher's of Logan and the Smoot's of Provo. The record is one of personal ideas, feelings, and conflicts rather than daily circumstances, business affairs, or local politics. In particular, the diary of Sarah Maria Davis Thatcher and the letters of Olive Smoot Bean make a fine study of Mormon women in late nineteenth century Utah. There are two...
Dates:
1895
Abraham Owen Smoot, Biographical Sketchs
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4-5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Paul Thatcher family papers (1809-1972) contain diaries, letters, biographies, and reminiscences from two prominent families of Utah, the Thatcher's of Logan and the Smoot's of Provo. The record is one of personal ideas, feelings, and conflicts rather than daily circumstances, business affairs, or local politics. In particular, the diary of Sarah Maria Davis Thatcher and the letters of Olive Smoot Bean make a fine study of Mormon women in late nineteenth century Utah. There are two...
Dates:
1809-1972
Abraham Owen Journal, 1856-1900
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
This small journal contains three separate records dating from 1856 to about 1900. The first item is a diary (April 22-June 6, 1856) of Abraham Owen Smoot's journey to St. Louis, Missouri to purchase supplies for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The diary entries are short, lacking in much description and are written in a very poor hand. Following the diary are records of the Salt Lake City Mayor's...
Dates:
1856-1900
Margaret Thompson Smoot, Biographical Sketch
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
A short sketch of the life of Abraham Owen Smoot's first wife, Margaret Thompson McMeans. Included are several poems by Margaret and other members of the Smoot family; extracts from letters between Margaret and Abraham Owen Smoot (undated); a lengthy description (6 pages) of a quilt given to Margaret by the women of the 20th Ward Relief Society; and tributes to Margaret on her sixty-seventh birthday from her family and friends.
Dates:
1809-1972
Diana Eldredge Smoot, Autobiographical Sketch
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
A short sketch concentrating mostly on her experiences crossing the plains in 1847.
Dates:
1809-1972
Olive Smoot Bean, Reminiscences
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Olive Bean's reminiscences are in the form of three love letters written to her family in 1933 and 1934. The letters describe some of her girlhood experiences and her courtship and marriage to James William Bean. Of particular interest are her descriptions of the life of a polygamous family at the time of the polygamy raids and the Manifesto.
Dates:
1809-1972
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
This folder and the next fourteen folders contain eighty-four holograph letters between Olive Smoot Bean and her husband, James William Bean (Will), exchanged during his sixteen-month mission to Virginia and Colorado. The letters have been inter-filed chronologically in order to preserve the continuity of Olive and Will's "conversations." All of the letters are legibly written but transcribed copies of each can be...
Dates:
1882
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
July 12, 1882-Jeffersonville, Virginia
Dear True and beloved Wife
"...I say to you do not be cast down by anything, trust in Him, through the faith, love, and knowledge of the Gospel which you possess....As for Polly, I consider her almost one with you already; may your joys be shared together.... take care of yourself and dear little Nina and the child you bear; take light, open...
Dates:
1882
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
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August 6, 1882-Provo City, Utah
Dear Loved Will
"...Polly is coming up this evening to stay at home, for it seems more like home with her here, and she prefers to stay here, than at her own home. Will, she comes nearer filling the vacany left by you than any one else. I get lonesome to see her when she has not been for a few days, and there is only one living human, that can bring...
Dates:
1882
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
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September 2, 1882-Jeffersonville, Virginia
Dearest loved ones at home
"...I pray that this may find you enjoying good health, and sweet contented happiness, that you may be prepared in every way for your trial which is now a little over two months distant....Dear Polly must always include herself as one of the loved ones at home, and in all my letters where anything can relate to...
Dates:
1882
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
October 2, 1882-Swords Creek, Virginia
My Own dear loving wife & babe
"...I trust that by the time this reaches you that dear Polly will be settled with you for the winter in our own little home, where true love health and happiness may reign supreme in the hearts of the loved ones there....I see by the papers, that things in the Church, and political affairs are getting very...
Dates:
1882
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
October 20, 1882-Jeffersonville, Virginia
Dearest, Loving Wife
"...Well, I hope that long ere this reaches you, that dear Polly has come home to stay, and that you all are contented and happy, and as healthy as him, of whose life and being you are a part....I suppose you have seen the comet which is attracting the world so much; some of the people here are considerably worked up...
Dates:
1882
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
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December 3, 1882-Swords Creek, Virginia
My Dearest, Loving Wife and Babes
"...I thank Him for His gracious blessings unto me in bestowing upon me such a noble wife...and also with the same gratitude I thank Him for granting my prayer for your safe delivery of a healthy vigorous child, and for your well being in my absence....And as you speak of not knowing how to live without...
Dates:
1882
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1883
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
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January 1, 1883-Swords Creek, Virginia
God bless my own loving ones at home
"...Polly must always remember she is indicated among the truly loved, and I trust the truly loving ones at home. Heavens riches blessings be upon you all according to your needs is ever the prayer of your devoted husband, lover, and father."
January 8, 1883-Provo City, Utah
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Dates:
1883
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1883
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
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February 6, 1883-Provo City, Utah
My own true husband
"...I have been alone a good deal lately and am likely to be more so now for Nom and Emer are going to be married this week....I am going to try to get Cell to stay here nights, for I cannot bear to stay all alone with the children....I miss Pollie's company sadly."
February 13, 1883-Swords Creek, Virginia
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Dates:
1883
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1883
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents
March 5, 1883-Swords Creek, Virginia
My loved and loving ones at home
"...I am so thankful to see dear, dear Polly a sharer of your joys and in sympathy with your sorrows. To me, she has long since become a very part of yourself, and always included among my loved ones at home, if it were not so I would write to her separately, this of course she fully understands. Sometimes I...
Dates:
1883
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1883
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents
April 16, 1883-Manassa, Colorado
My own true loving wife
"...I do not find as much division among the people [of Colorado] as I anticipated and the Saints are very kind, and very glad to have us among them, but they have much to learn, before they can fully sense, and live up to the principles of the Gospel....Bro. Glazier told you about my beard did he? Well I ought to have...
Dates:
1883
Olive Smoot Bean, Correspondence, 1883
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
May 8, 1883-Provo City, Utah
My own dear true loving husband
"...We are not as well at home as I could wish to say we were. I had a severe attack of sickness on Saturday and Sunday and for about twenty four hours suffered the most excruciating pain which I ever bore....I suppose it was caused by over doing and then taking cold. I had done a very heavy washing, getting ready to...
Dates:
1883