Box 1
Container
Contains 80 Results:
Letter, 1948 September 2
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
Morgan had checked with the Utah State Historical Society to see if they had sent Brooks Dwyer's thesis he had ordered for her and found that it had been sent to Fawn Brodie by mistake. He mentions talking with Caroline Parry, a granddaughter of Haight, who said that Haight and his family kept a vow of silence on the Mountain Meadows massacre. He reports that Parry also said that John D. Lee had been reinstated in the L.D.S. church after his death.
Dates:
1948 September 2
Letter, 1948 October 3
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 7
Scope and Contents
Morgan has been to St. George to visit Brooks's family and to look at the Mountain Meadows location. He is sending her the pictures he took and she may use any of them she wants for the book. Morgan tells of Marguerite Sinclair's efforts and failures at the Utah State Historical Society to get any reprinting done by the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. He comments on the Board of State History and the governor's appointments to the board.
Dates:
1948 October 3
Letter, 1948 November 2
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 8
Scope and Contents
Morgan is sending Brooks the pictures he took at the Mountain Meadows Monument. He tells her of a trip to Denver and other personal news.
Dates:
1948 November 2
Letter, 1948 November 15
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 9
Scope and Contents
Brooks has been to Salt Lake City. Morgan ran out of gas and she missed her bus. Morgan asks her if she has anything on Kanab, Utah, from 1870-1872.
Dates:
1948 November 15
Letter, 1948 December 10
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 10
Scope and Contents
The Pacific Historical Review has printed Morgan's "Indian Affairs in Utah, 1851-1858." He plans to write two additional sections for it. He asks Brooks to let him know as soon as she hears from Stanford University Press.
Dates:
1948 December 10
Letter, 1948 December 27
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 11
Scope and Contents
Morgan writes mainly about what he has been writing. He states that he has written to Wallace Stegner about a publisher for Brooks's autobiography.
Dates:
1948 December 27
Letter, 1949 January 24
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
Morgan tells Brooks of the problems of university publishing. He suggests that she publish her writings on the Hamblin and Brown journals in a copy of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
Dates:
1949 January 24
Letter, 1949 February 18
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
Morgan suggests that Brooks edit some women's journals or diaries. He tells her to get permission from the Hamblin family to publish Jacob Hamblin's journal.
Dates:
1949 February 18
Letter, 1949 February 24
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
Morgan sends Brooks additional notes on what the Church Historians' Library has on John D. Lee and the Mountain Meadows massacre.
Dates:
1949 February 24
Letter, 1949 February 28
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
Morgan writes to Brooks that the historical society's funds have been cut by the legislature. He discusses plans for Brooks to edit the Martha Spence Heywood journal.
Dates:
1949 February 28