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    Frederick Kesler papers

    Manuscripts

    A collection of 184 items from 1852 to 1898; it consists of correspondence and journals relating to Frederick Kesler and his duties as a master millwright and bishop of the 16th Ward, as well as financial papers and newspaper clippings. Correspondents in the collection include John M. Bernhisel, George Reynolds, Joseph F. Smith, and Brigham Young. A major portion of the correspondence and manuscripts relate to the divorce between Frederick Kesler and Jane Elizabeth Pratt Kesler and Abigail Dow Snow Kesler. The material covers the reasons for the divorces as well as the financial compensation they would receive from Kesler per the instructions of Brigham Young. The 58 journals written by Frederick Kesler primarily contain notes on mills, tithing records and receipts for expenditures in the ward. A journal written by Alexander Ott includes the names of and provisions provided to Mormon immigrants.

    mssHM 63493-63537

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    Journals, financial papers, and newspaper clippings

    Manuscripts

    A collection of 184 items from 1852 to 1898; it consists of correspondence and journals relating to Frederick Kesler and his duties as a master millwright and bishop of the 16th Ward, as well as financial papers and newspaper clippings. Correspondents in the collection include John M. Bernhisel, George Reynolds, Joseph F. Smith, and Brigham Young. A major portion of the correspondence and manuscripts relate to the divorce between Frederick Kesler and Jane Elizabeth Pratt Kesler and Abigail Dow Snow Kesler. The material covers the reasons for the divorces as well as the financial compensation they would receive from Kesler per the instructions of Brigham Young. The 58 journals written by Frederick Kesler primarily contain notes on mills, tithing records and receipts for expenditures in the ward. A journal written by Alexander Ott includes the names of and provisions provided to Mormon immigrants.

    mssHM 63493-63537

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    Journals

    Manuscripts

    A collection of 184 items from 1852 to 1898; it consists of correspondence and journals relating to Frederick Kesler and his duties as a master millwright and bishop of the 16th Ward, as well as financial papers and newspaper clippings. Correspondents in the collection include John M. Bernhisel, George Reynolds, Joseph F. Smith, and Brigham Young. A major portion of the correspondence and manuscripts relate to the divorce between Frederick Kesler and Jane Elizabeth Pratt Kesler and Abigail Dow Snow Kesler. The material covers the reasons for the divorces as well as the financial compensation they would receive from Kesler per the instructions of Brigham Young. The 58 journals written by Frederick Kesler primarily contain notes on mills, tithing records and receipts for expenditures in the ward. A journal written by Alexander Ott includes the names of and provisions provided to Mormon immigrants.

    mssHM 63493-63537

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    Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence (1843-1931)

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of two boxes. Box 1: Volumes and Documents, approx. 1575-1822, HM 83505-83510; significant authors include Thomas Day, Francesco Dolce, Colin Mackenzie, and Giovam Batista Muzio. Box 2: Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1843-1931, HM 83511-83529; significant authors and correspondents include John W. Ballantyne, Samuel W. Butler, Robert P. Harris, Richard H. Horne, William T. Howard, Madame Viviane Jeannin, William G. MacCallum, Edward E. Mackenzie, James W. Mandigo, Richard Owen, Francis R. Packard, George C. Peachey, William S. Playfair, J. Whitridge Williams, and Leroy M. Yale.

    mssHM 83505-83529

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    Letters, manuscripts, and ephemera

    Manuscripts

    Box contains a family genealogy, an account book, a poem, contemporary copies or photocopies of John Doyle Lee letters to various addressees (one letter may be written to Brigham Young, approximatley 1871); the box also contains letters by William W. Bishop, Emoline Kennedy Chatten, Nancy Emily Lee Dalton, Emma Batchellor Lee among other letters and ephemera.

    mssLee

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    Longo Manuscripts Collection

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of two boxes. Box 1: Volumes and Documents, approx. 1575-1822, HM 83505-83510 ; Box 2: Volumes, Documents, Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1843-1931, HM 83511-83529. The material deals with the history of medicine, midwifery, gynecology, obstetrics and childbirth; this collection forms part of the Lawrence D. Longo and Betty Jeanne Longo Collection in Reproductive Biology.

    mssHM 83505-83529