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To Sam and Gay Taylor from Janet W. Taylor supporting Sam's desire to write a biography of John W. Taylor and making suggestions of people to contact who knew him.

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Letters written by Sam Taylor to his wife while overseas during World War II and while in southern Utah filming "Uranium Fever" in the 1950s.

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Letters written by Sam Taylor to members of the immediate family, close friends, and associates of John W. Taylor requesting information concerning his life. Responses, in form of reminiscences and stories, provide additional research material regarding his activities in the church, in business, in Canada, and Mexico.

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Letters deal with family matters, information on John W. Taylor, and progress with the biography.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Taylor family papers (1844-1994) are a collection of material reflecting the life and work of John Taylor, third president of the LDS Church, and his descendants, John W. Taylor, Raymond Woolley Taylor, and Samuel Taylor. Included are letters, biographies, research materials, genealogies, articles written by other authors, diaries, journals, and books. Correspondence comprises a major portion of the collection and has been organized within the papers of each individual....

Scope and Contents Primarily business correspondence with bookstores and publishers concerning Sam Taylor's writing. Letters deal with articles, Family Kingdom, Nightfall at Nauvoo, and The Kingdom or Nothing. Also included is a letter to the editor of Dialogue (December 7, 1966) highly critical of a negative review of Fawn Brodie's No Man Knows My...

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Notes taken from conversations with people who knew John W., such as Ruth T. Williams, M. Wilford Poulson, T.N. Taylor, Fred W. Taylor, and Ida and John M. Whitaker, among others. They relate stories concerning John W. on variety of subjects including his interest in Canadian land ventures, his financial problems, and his personality.

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Miscellaneous research notes taken from articles, books, diaries, and letters.

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Funeral program, 1940; Millennial Star, 1941, featured article

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John Taylor family papers (1844-1994) are a collection of material reflecting the life and work of John Taylor, third president of the LDS Church, and his descendants, John W. Taylor, Raymond Woolley Taylor, and Samuel Taylor. Included are letters, biographies, research materials, genealogies, articles written by other authors, diaries, journals, and books. Correspondence comprises a major portion of the collection and has been organized within the papers of each individual....

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Lecture on the Holy Ghost at a Relief Society Meeting in 1898.

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Deeds of Trust and Warranty Deeds

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Snider, Cecil A., Development of Attitudes in Sectarian Conflict: A Study of Mormonism in Illinois Comtemporary Newspaper Sources. State University of Iowa, 1933. Thesis with notes by Samuel Taylor. (Chronological index and notes, See Bx 49, Fd 10).

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Invitation and program for birthday anniversary in 1897.

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An incomplete Patriarchial Blessing; list of stake presidents and high councilers; History of the Deseret News and a copy of a 1850 paper.