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Perris Valley ; a home land
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The journal covers all Lilla's life beginning in 1894. The journal starts with the "Journal of Lola Hammond," which is a pseudonym for Lilla S. Perry. "The Journal of Lilla S. Perry" begins on page 316 (before that is a note by Perry, written in 1970, about the writing of the journal). She talks about her days growing up on the East Coast, her college years at Cornell and her relationship with Everett Perry. She discusses in detail her doubts about their relationship, their long courtship, their marriage, and their constant marital problems. She also talks about Everett's library work and involvement in the American Library Association, including attending ALA conferences and the opening of the new LA library in 1926. Many notable people, who were Lilla's friends, show up throughout the journal including Carl Sandburg, Charles Lummis and his wife Dorothea Moore - Perry includes transcripts of letters between Lummis and Moore, which Moore gave to her. Perry talks in detail about her Japanese prints and Chinese snuff bottle collections as well as trips to view other collections and exhibitions including her trip to Japan. In her various art interests she becomes connected to several collectors and artists such as Judson D. Metzgar, Carl Schraubstadter, Louis Ledoux, and Fujio and Hiroshi Yoshida. Lilla was a member of several women's clubs including the Friday Morning Club and in her journal she talks a lot about her work with that club. The journal includes an Index and note as well as notes written throughout by Lilla years later. Several photographs of Perry and her family are included in the journal.
mssHM 62591
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Letterbook kept by Fred Thomas Perris while he worked as an agent for Cronyn and Perris, general merchandise of Salt Lake City. The volume references Perris' Mormon customers, including Brigham Young. It includes entries from New York, St. Louis, and North Platte, Nebraska, among other cities.
mssHM 35296
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The collection consists mostly of the family correspondence of William Perry Nebeker. Much of the correspondence deals with family affairs and the acquiring of provisions, but also covers subjects related to Mormons as a whole. These subjects include politics and the United Order. Of note is a letter from William Clayton and letters regarding the divorce of Frederick Kesler and the imprisonment of George Q. Cannon for polygamy. In the collection Sarah Ivins McKean is represented as both an author and addressee and Theodore McKean as an addressee.
mssHM 63538-63606
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A collection of approximately 500 items from 1821 to 1936, which contains original manuscripts and secondary source material collected by J. Perry Worden. The original material assembled by Worden includes manuscripts, eighty-three pieces of correspondence and legal documents, and is composed of three unrelated groups: the Chilton-Rice-Bowdon letters, the Chaffin-Conant letters, and the papers of Henry E. Shelley and Jacob Tripp Chandler. The Chilton-Rice-Bowdon letters constitute the largest part of the collection; the letters center around the family of Thomas Chilton (1798-1854), a U.S. representative from Kentucky from 1827 to 1833. Chilton had thirteen children, including Frances Jane and Sara Elizabeth. Frances Jane Chilton married into the Rice family of South Carolina and Sara Elizabeth Chilton married Franklin Welch Bowdon (1817-1857), a Congressman from Alabama. These letters mostly focus on the Chilton-Rice-Bowdon families as well as on issues of national politics. The second group of original manuscripts, the Chaffin Conant letters, consist of eighteen letters pertaining to the Civil War. The majority were written by Robert C. Chaffin of the 32nd Massachusetts Infantry. Other authors in this group include brothers Nahum Conant and Marcus Conant, cousins of Robert C. Chaffin. The third group of original manuscripts contain a miscellaneous collection of letters and legal documents belonging to Henry E. Shelley and Jacob Tripp Chandler and originated in Texas. The collection's secondary source material contains information on California history and California pioneers; it contains typewritten notes, printed material, and a group of unidentified photographs. The secondary material may have been gathered by Worden for newspaper articles or for background material in his collaboration with Harris Newmark on Sixty years in Southern California.
mssWorden
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Collection of items related to Alonzo Orson Perry and Mormon history. Includes a biography of Perry by Almeda Perry Brown, a family history of his wife Ann Janette Stowell Perry (1849-1912), a mission certificate signed by Brigham Young (1876), a certificate of his residence at Mill Ward in the Uintah Stake (1899), a copy of a certificate of his ordination as high priest (1907), Also includes a printed pamphlet of a revelation given through John Taylor relating to George Teasdale and Heber J. Grant and copies of two photographs of Egyptian papyrus reputed to be Joseph Smith's Book of Abraham.
mssHM 74300-74306