Abstract

This collection contains the original fourteen chapter manuscript of Juanita's Brooks' book, The Jews of Utah

Abstract

The contents of the manuscript collection were created and collected by Mr. Christensen. It contains original correspondence from Juanita Miller, daughter of Joaquin Miller to Mr. Christensen about her father. There are articles about Juanita and Joaquin Miller, poems about Mr. Miller, and biographical information on Juanita Miller and Joaquin Miller.

Abstract

General correspondence dating from 1969-1979 , including letters of criticism relating to the author’s books. Manuscript material includes fragments of drafts, uncorrected author’s proofs, newspaper clippings, reviews, legal papers 1996-1998, and miscellaneous items.

Abstract

This collection contains correspondence between Jean Anne Waterstradt and Wayne Carver from 1945-1999.

Abstract This collection contains a scrapbook and autograph book from the Carnegie Library Children's Librarian. The scrapbook contains information on the Summer Reading Circle from 1933-1941 including the certificates given to students, reading lists, and newspaper articles. The autograph book contains inscriptions from authors who visited the library such as Father Bernard R. Hubbard, R. E. Byrd, and Anna Bird Stewart. The items were an anonymous donation from a previous children's librarian in...

Abstract

This collection contains poetry from local poet Clinton F. Larson.

Abstract This collection was found in the attic of the Chapel of the Flowers Mortuary in Ogden, Utah. The papers were stuffed in an old leather satchel. The collection consists of numerous poems, a small number of articles, a number of news clippings, and two letters.The words “H. E. Prall, Prairie Poet” are handwritten on many of the manuscript items. There are also news clippings of a column of “Open Forum by H. E. Prall.” The clippings are undated; however, some of them are...

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Helen Hinckley (Jones)’ notes relating to biography, found in a copy of “Eminent Victorians” by Lytton Strachey, biographical sketches of Theodore Judah and Helen Hinckley (Jones), printer’s proof of “Rails from the West”, and a biographical account of Theodore Judah, and an uncorrected proof of “A Wall and Three Willows” by Najmeh Najafi, recounting experiences in Iran.

Abstract

The collection consists of a Xerox page from a commentary by George Steiner, “Language and

Silence,” 1974, concerning the effect of culture on the human mind; a Xerox copy of an outline,

“Dimensions in Reading Literature and the Welfare of Mankind,” by Dr. Lavon B. Carroll,

January 12, 1978. A Xerox copy of the manuscript “Literature and the Welfare of Mankind”; a

printer’s proof of a manuscript, “Values in Literature.”

Abstract

Letters and notes between author Vardis Fisher and Clarence Major of Omaha, Nebraska, November - December, 1963. Topics of the correspondence include Fisher’s comments on his personal favorite book which he has written and his views on the politics of several Idaho newspapers.