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A history of the life of Grandfather Jesse Hobson
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The history and journal of Jesse W. Crosby, along with a complete copy of Masonry and Mormonism by James C. Bilderback
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Bound typescript containing a portion of Jesse W. Crosby's autobiography. The autobiography begins with Crosby's childhood and introduction to Mormonism, and focuses on his mission work in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Quebec, and Maine. It concludes with Crosby's call to join a British mission in 1850 (HM 27975). The rest of the volume contains a complete copy of James C. Bilderback's Masonry and Mormonism: Nauvoo, Illinois, 1841-1847, published in 1937 (HM 72976).
mssHM 27975-27976
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Jesse Terrell letter to "Sister Ada,"
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A two-page letter by Jesse Terrell of Banner, Wyoming Territory, to his sister, Ada, in Ilinois. This letter focuses upon fears of local civilians about potential attacks from local indigenous peoples, even though no battles had occurred in the region for years.
mssHM 83800
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Medorem Crawford letter to "Dear Grandfather,"
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In this letter to his otherwise unnamed grandfather, Medorem Crawford writes about his experience aboard the military barque "Torrent" en route from Fort Vancouver "on which our Battery was embarked." The ship wrecked, and Crawford endeavored to "save as many of the one hundred and sixty people aboard as possible." Once gaining shore in Alaska at Fort Kodiak, Crawford writes that "we are about as poor as poverty can make us" and that "this is a miserably poor country fit for nothing but the furs which abound here." In addition, he writes that "one of the greatest objections I have to the country is that there are from ten to a dozen earthquakes here every year. Caused by two active volcanoes which are within a hundred & fifty miles of here."
mssHM 31268
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Jesse Washington Carter letters
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This group contains five letters that deal with an alleged beating of a Jehovah's Witness in Corning, California, and general harassment of Jehovah's Witnesses in that same town. The letters are between Justice Jesse W. Carter, California Superior Court Judge Herbert S. Gans, and Ernest Besig, Director of the Northern California Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.
mssHM 68049-68053
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Harry Carr letters to Jesse Lasky
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Carr wrote these letters to Jesse Lasky, pioneer motion picture producer and founder of Paramount Pictures. In the letters, Carr talks about the problems on the set of the film The Wedding March between director Erich von Stroheim, the producer, and others (Lasky was one of the film's producers). One is dated 1926, July 4, the other is only dated "Aug. 1."
mssHM 82427-82428
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Memoirs and family histories of Edna Zyl Modie
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Includes two memoirs of Edna Zyl Modie which recount her early life, a brief family history, and various travels in southern California. Also includes a typescript Modie's grandfather William T. Harvey's brief autobiography and family history, and a retelling by Modie's father's counsin Andrew Snyder of his experiences in a store robbery by Tiburcio Vasquez in Monterey in 1872.
mssHM 73986-73989