Guide to Women's Manuscript Collections

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Roberts, Mary Adeline Ensign Mary's biography was written by her granddaughter Marjorie Ricks Romrell on June 19, 1937 in Sugar City, Idaho. There is little information about Mary's childhood and more about her later life. W...
Roberts, Josephine Redd This collection includes an oral history tape (30 minutes in length) and a transcript (7 pages in length) that consists of an interview between Josephine Redd Roberts and Greg Maynard on July 24, 1...
Roberts, Bertha C. This manuscript is a 329-page typescript book, hardbound in leather and written by Jens Marinus Jenkins, Newbern Isaac Butt, Elsie Chamberlain Carroll, and Bertha C. Roberts. The book is entitled, Hi
Richards, Nanny Longstroth This is a four-page typescript biography from the Margaret Steed Hess collection, written by Minerva E. Richards Knowlton, one of Nanny's daughters. Minerva briefly describes the main events of Nan...
Richards, Jennetta This is a letter written from Nauvoo, Illinois on 4 July 1843 by Jennetta Richards to Sis. Wealthy Richards. The contents of the letter focus on general news in her life and a desc...
Richards, Jennetta This manuscript is a 4-page photocopy of a holograph letter, written by Jennetta Richards on 4 July 1843 in Nauvoo, Illinois. The letter is addressed to a Mrs. Wealthy Richards (most likely Wealthy De
Richards, Jane Snyder This folder contains a book by Karen M. and Paul D. Larsen titled Remembering Winter Quarters. The book is a collection of first-person writings from sixteen pioneers who lived temporarily at Winter
Rich, Mary Ann Elizabeth Stokes Mary's biography was most likely written by Ellen R. Clark, a daughter. It is included in the Rich family history collection. Mary suffered and endured many hardships of the early pioneers. Whil...
Rich, Alice Redd This manuscript is a 6-page, typescript biography entitled, Louisa Chamberlain A Youthful Pioneer. It is written in narrative form by Alice Redd Rich, one of her fathers other wives, and is dated
Rice, Laura Louisa Smith This 77-page, typescript volume is a compilation of two of Laura Louisa Smith Rices personal writings, as compiled by her youngest daughter, Helen. Helen included a forward in this volume, detailing
Reynolds, Alice Louise Alice Reynold's autobiography is 39 typed pages. She wrote about a variety of topics, including her family, school memories, and her travels. Alice described attending Brigha...
Reid, Rose Marie Yancey This 19-page, typed transcript is of a fireside talk Rose Marie Reid, famed Canadian-American LDS swimsuit designer gave, entitled How to get him, and keep him -- MORMON STYLE!. The date and locatio
Redd, Sariah Louisa Chamberlain This folder contains photocopies of 3 handwritten letters written by members of the Redd family.
Rea, Gladys Clark This collection was submitted for the Women's History Archives at Brigham Young University. It contains three photocopied pages of unlabeled photographs; 'The Story of My Life,' Gladys' 29-page, t...
Rawson, Eliza Jane Cheney Eliza's autobiography is part of a collection of biographies on the Cheney family. It is five typewritten pages long and was written in March of 1919. There is a note at the end of the manuscript...
Rawlinson, Eliza Lucina Moore Eliza's memoirs are found within the history she wrote in 1962 as a tribute to her mother Almeda Harmon Moore. Also included in the collection are other histories Eliza wrote about her ancestors: ...
Putnam, Abbie Blake Small This manuscript is a 3-page photocopy of a typescript life sketch entitled, Life History of Abbie B. Small Putman; Born October 24, 1848, Died ---"
Price, Emma Brown This file consists of four folders about Emma and Edmund Price. The first folder contains 8 typed pages of stories titled Incidents and Testimonies in the Life of Emma Brown Price written by both Em
Price, Elizabeth This collection consists of one bound, hardcover book that is a typed transcript of an oral interview. There are 20 pages of text, with a 3-page index at the end. The interview was conducted by Jes...
Preece, Florence Smith This is a two-page typescript biography and two-page recollection of Florence Smith Preece, as written by her daughters, Lucy Preece Stewart and Violet Preece Richard. It is included in the Margare...
Pratt, Louisa Barnes This four-page biography written by Louisa's granddaughter, Nettie H. Rencher, is titled, A Noted Lady Missionary. The bulk of this biography is about Louisa's missionary service in the Society...
Pratt, Brighamine Nielsen This twelve-page typewritten biography of Brighamine Nielsen Pratt was written by Ruby Kate Smith at the request of Una Pratt Giles in 1947 and is found in the bound book entitled 'Pioneer Biograph...
Pratt, Belinda Marden This folder contains a letter to Belinda Marden Pratt from her husband, Parley P. Pratt, written from San Francisco in January 1855 and a fifteen-page autobiographical sketch written by Belinda,
Pratt, Ann Agatha Walker The collection is comprised of one folder that contains an account written by Ann Agatha Pratt. It is a two-page, typewritten account dated August 25, 1905. The work is titled A Milinary Marvel: Aunt
Pound, Louise This is a rather large collection separated into three Hollinger boxes containing both typescripts and holographs. As a professor at the University of Nebraska, Louise taught literature with a conc...
Poulson, Jessie Brooks Jessie's 72 page biography is bound in book form and entitled, 'History and Memories of Henry and Jessie Poulson,' compiled by their daughter Mercedes Poulson Anderson in December 1976. Included a...
Porter, Eliza Bratton This collection contains a six page typewritten biography of Eliza Bratton Porter, written by her daughter-in-law Anna I. M. Porter, wife of Alva Rich Porter. The biography is entitled 'A Brief Li...
Pitchforth, Ann Hughlings This is a typed copy of a letter written in 1845 by Ann Hughlings Pitchforth from Nauvoo, Illinois, to her family in England. In the letter she described her trip to Nauv...
Pill, Elizabeth Henri This is a one-page typescript biography of the lives of John and Elizabeth Henri Pill included in the Margaret Steed Hess collection. It briefly covers John's and Elizabeth's lives and provides lit...
Phillips, Rachel Hannah Crump This collection contains the biographies of Jonah Phillips and his wife Ann Thomas Phillips, the collection has been assembled by their descendants as a record of the Phillips Family. The collectio...
Phillips, Mary Ann This collection contains the biographies of Jonah Phillips and his wife Ann Thomas Phillips, both which are available in collections MSS SC 234, MSS SC 1837. This collection has been as...
Phillips, Martha Jane This collection has been assembled by the descendants of the Jonah Phillips Family. The collection is 143 lose sheets in length, containing biographies for Jonah and Ann Phillips and all their chil...
Phillips, Maria Elizabeth Leah This collection contains various letters and biographies about the Phillips family. The section containing information about Maria is five typewritten pages of a biography written by her daughter, ...
Phillips, Ella Johnson This collection contains the biographies of Jonah Phillips and his wife Ann Thomas Phillips, the collection has been assembled by their descendants as a record of the Phillips Family. The collectio...
Phillips, Ann Thomas This collection contains two copies of the biography of Ann Thomas Phillips written by her daughter Adah Phillips Jessee. One is a seven page typewritten history and the second is a p...
Phillips, Alzada Avery This collection has been assembled by the descendants of the Jonah Phillips Family. The collection is 143 lose sheets in length, containing biographies for Jonah and Ann Phillips and all their chil...
Phillips, Alta Ann Evans This collection contains the biographies of Jonah Phillips and his wife Ann Thomas Phillips, the collection has been assembled by their descendants as a record of the Phillips Family. The collectio...
Petty, Maggie Cottam This collection contains a family group record, biographies, and autobiographies relating to the Holt and Cottam families. Information about Maggie can be found in her ten-typewritten page autobiog...
Peterson, Ruth Jean Rio Baker This collection is a combination of various letters, genealogical materials and biographies of the Baker family. The section containing information about Jane consists of a poem, photographs of Jan...
Peterson, Mattie Marie The collection is titled Biography of John Olney Adams [native pioneer] and his wife, Mattie Marie Peterson, and is comprised of one folder, which contains five pages photographed from microfilm. Th
Petersen, Zola Evelyn Adams Nielson This collection is an autobiography of Zola Adams Peterson. It is one folder, containing two typed copies of the 42-page document'one most likely an original, the other a copy. The autobiography is...
Petersen, Mary Mortensen The history of Mary and Niels Petersen was written by their son Joseph Lorenzo Petersen. The biography is 19 typed pages. After her marriage and settlement in Arizona, the family raised cows and ...
Petersen, Erma Epsy Pace This genealogical collection consists of 4 folders. The first folder contains a handwritten genealogy entitled, The Earliest Lawrence Arms, Granted 1191 A.D. Argent, a Cross Raguly Gules. It number
Person, Julia Helena This three-page typescript biography from the Margaret Steed Hess collection was written by Julia's daughter, Emeline R. H. Bourne. Emeline writes of a time when Julia offered a prayer for the sain...
Pearce, Jean Rio Griffith Baker This collection includes talks and excerpts of other Baker family members, but is primarily the diary of Jean Rio Griffith Baker Pearce. There are several photographed transcription...
Payne, Emma Powell This collection contains biographical information relating to the Payne family. Emma's five-page, typewritten biography was written by her son, H. M. Payne. It chronicles important events in Emma...
Partridge, Ruth Louise This record is a seventeen-page typescript of an interview held with Ruth Louise Partridge on December 18, 1980. The subject of the interview was Reminiscences of Brigham Young Univer...
Park, Margaret Wilson Margaret submitted her autobiography in 1978 while living in South Africa. The manuscript is two pages long, handwritten in blue ink. It also includes a black and white original photo of Margar...
Palmer, Patience Delila Pierce This collection contains a letter from Rachel P. Mellor to LeGrand L. Baker describing some of the collection's contents. There are also photocopies of two pictures, one of Abraham Palmer and one ...
Palmer, Ada Elizabeth Magnusson This collection includes an oral history tape (90 minutes in length) and a transcript (18 pages in length) that consists of an interview between Ada Palmer and Jessie Embry on July 25, 1973 as part...