Guide to Women's Manuscript Collections

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Bingham, Mehitable Sawyer Hall Mehitable's biography is included in a collection of Harris Family Biographies. Mehitable and Benjamin's combined biography was written by their great-granddaughter Belle Harris Wilson about 1960....
Packer, Donna Smith This collection contains two essays written by Sister Donna Packer. They were submitted to the archival collections following a request Sister Packer received from her Stake Relief Society Preside...
Washburn, Tamer Washburn Tamer's three-page, typewritten biography was authored by a step-daughter, Lorena Eugenia Washburn Larsen. There is also a biography in the collection that Lorena wrote for her mother Flora, Abrah...
Teeples, Harriet Betsy Cook This manuscript is a 29-page photocopy of a typescript autobiography. It does not have an official title, but it does include a description: This, a sketch of the life of Harriet B. Cook Teeples, was
Taylor, Edith Wharton Dallas This manuscript is a copy of Edith Wharton Dallas Taylors masters thesis, entitled Money on the Hoof Sometimes. It covers the history of the cattle trade in Texas, and it numbers 81 typescript p
Eyre, Sarah Ann Gillins Sarah's autobiography is a three-page typewritten copy of a handwritten document. At the beginning there is a note stating that this manuscript is a 'copy of Mother Eyre's writings as near as we c...
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...
Dyer, Edna Helena Coray This is a large and vast collection, containing numerous items from the Dyer family. Included in the collection is Edna Coray Dyer's typewritten two and a half page autobiography entitled 'Autobio...
Leavitt, Mary Hafen This collection contains six typewritten pages of Mary's autobiography, transcribed by her daughter, Juanita Brooks. At ninety years old, Mary's quick wit and charming personality are evident as sh...
Coray, Martha Jane Knowlton This collection contains a vast amount of typewritten biographical information about Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, much of which was written by her daughter Martha C. Lewis. Other biographical sourc...
Knight, Lydia Goldthwaite Bailey This collection contains letters of correspondence dating from 1833-1883 as well as genealogical records. The originals are restricted due to their fragile nature, but microfilm copies are availab...
Adams, Dorothy Marie Rasmussen This collection includes an oral history tape (165 minutes in length) and a transcript (28 pages in length) that consists of an interview between Dorothy Adams and Richard Swanson on August 4, 1973...
Marsh, Eudocia Baldwin This collection includes a microfilm copy of Eudocia Baldwin Marsh's manuscript entitled 'Mormons in Hancock County: A Reminiscence.' The original manuscript is housed at Knox College, Galesburg, ...
Nuttall, Margaret Grace Greer This collection includes a seven-page autobiography by Margaret Grace Greer Nuttall in which she describes her childhood, life as a student at Brigham Young Academy, her children's births, her acti...
Maw, Margaret Petersen The Margaret Petersen Maw collection consists of six boxes and eight scrapbooks. The first box contains three records of the First District Federation of Women's Clubs, which includes handwritten ...
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...
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...
Smith, Ruby Kate This collection includes a vast amount of materials contained in seven boxes that document Ruby's activities, careers, and writings. Included are ten photo albums that chronicle Ruby's adventures ...
Lee, Eliza Bramwich Tyrell Harmon Riddle This collection contains the biographies of Eliza and other members of the Thorderson and Bramwich families. The biography of Eliza is three typewritten pages written by a granddaughter, Eliza ...
Smoot, Margaret Thompson McMeans This collection includes the Abraham Owen Smoot journals, diaries, financial records, and correspondence dealing with business, personal, church, and Brigham Young Academy matters as well as the Ma...
Clawson, Margaret Gay Judd This fourteen-page typewritten biography of Margaret Gay Judd Clawson was written by Ruby Kate Smith at the request of Tessie Clawson Groesbeck in 1955 and is found in the bound book entitled 'Pion...
Smoot, Diana Eldridge This collection includes a twenty-five page fragile holograph life sketch of Diana Eldridge Smoot, which states that 'her life was devoted to the service of her family and friends; to her faith in ...
Smoot, Anna Kirstine Morrison This collection includes a paragraph-long typewritten biography of Diana's life on the last page of a tribute to Margaret Thompson Smoot....
Keeler, Eliza Shelton This collection includes an autobiography of Eliza that was copied by Eliza's daughter, Laura Ann Keeler Thurber, into her own diary. The autobiography details Eliza and her sister Emily's childre...
Thurber, Laura Ann Keeler This collection contains a 123-page handwritten autobiography/diary that has been encapsulated and bound and includes brief histories of Laura's parents, herself, James Thurber, and her children; p...
Van Buren, Lotta This collection includes four boxes, one of which contains a vast amount of correspondence during the years 1955 to 1960 between Brigham Young University and Henry Bizallion concerning Lotta's dona...
Westcott, Angeline Duckett This collection includes an oral history tape (150 minutes in length) and a transcript (26 pages in length) that consists of an interview between Angeline Westcott and Richard Swanson on August 23,...
Webster, Rose Glen This collection contains letters received by Rose Glen Webster and a flyer announcing a free lecture on Mormonism by Miss Glen Webster of Salt Lake City, Utah at the Baptist Church on Thursday even...
Erickson, Hilda Anderson The oral history (MSS OH 233) is an interview conducted on January 13, 1966 by Hollis Scott'Archivist with Brigham Young University Archives. The interview was conducted at the home of Mrs. John U....
Henrie, Thea Ana Lund This manuscript is a biography of Jerome Bradley Henrie (1859-1946) and Thea Ana Lund Henrie (1870-1937) written by their granddaughter, Vivian Henrie Crawford. It consists of 14 typed pages that l...
Leithead, Deborah Lamoreaux This collection consists of biographies and photographs relating to James Leithead and his family, contributed by Mrs. W. H. Stafford of Orem, Utah. Two brief biographies, three pages in length...
Hales, Isabella (Belle) Wilson This collection is a 2-volume, 709-page diary written by Belle W. Hales. Both volumes are typed, single-sided, and bound in a paper cover. Volume one contains 341 pages and covers the years 1941-19...
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...
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...
Christensen, Sarah Jane Bartholomew This forty-one page typewritten biography of Sarah Jane Bartholomew Christensen was written by Ruby Kate Smith at the request of Sarah's daughter Edythe Christensen Robbins in 1955 and is found in ...
Kerr, Grace Levira Smith This ten-page typewritten biography of Grace Levira Smith Kerr was written by Ruby Kate Smith for the family books of remembrance in 1960 and is found in the bound book entitled 'Family Biographies...
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...
Burns, Cumorah Smith This four-page typewritten biography of Cumorah Smith Burns was written by Ruby Kate Smith for the Samuel H. Smith Family Association in 1957 as a tribute on her eightieth birthday and is found in ...
Winter, Julia Restel This two-page typewritten biography of Julia Restel Winter was written by Ruby Kate Smith, a granddaughter of Julia, and is found in the bound book entitled 'Family Biographies' (Box 6, Folder 1)....
Smith, Mary Bailey This five-page typewritten biography of Mary Bailey Smith was written by Ruby Kate Smith, a granddaughter of Mary, and is found in the bound book entitled 'Family Biographies' (Box 6, Folder 1). R...
Lightner, Mary Elizabeth Rollins This is a copy of a biography/diary of Mary Rollins Lightner. It was written by her grand-daughter Elsie E. Barrett in 1936. Barrett wrote down many of Mary's stories and used ...
Hughes, Mary Collier Winter Fry This three-page typewritten biography of Mary Hughes was written by Ruby Kate Smith, a great-granddaughter of Mary, and is found in the bound book entitled 'Family Biographies' (Box 6, Folder 1)....
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...
Clark, Sadie Ollerton This collection contains a 16 page typewritten autobiography written by Sadie Ollerton Clark entitled 'My Life.' On the first page is a pasted picture of a young woman, presumably Sadie. Within h...
Whipple, Marilyn D. This collection contains numerous program schedules and handouts for classes on fashion, skincare, and self-esteem taught by Marilyn and mostly offered through the Brigham Young University Division...
Fisher, Flora Davis This collection contains an eight page autobiography of Flora Davis Fisher. Within the autobiography, Flora describes her service in the LDS Church as a stake primary leader, Sunday ...
Clarke, Ellen Drew Gemmell This is a photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten three-page biography as copied by Ellen's daughter-in-law, Vilate Green Clarke, and compiled by Ellen's granddaughter, Sadie Bo...
Ollerton, Anna This collection includes a one page typewritten biography of Anna Ollerton written by Sadie Ollerton Clark, Anna's sister. A picture of Anna is pasted onto the biography. Sadie praises Anna by sa...
Turley, Lola Jesamine Ollerton This collection contains a five page typewritten biography of Lola Turley, written by her sister, Sadie Ollerton Clark. Lola's picture is included on the first page. This biography frequently div...
Marino, Giovanna Portella This collection contains a 62 page bound book of poetry written in Italian entitled 'Momenti' that was published in 1978. Some of the poems address Mormon culture and doctrine. Also included in t...