Marriot Library Manuscripts LogoThe John L. Traughber Papers
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The Manuscripts Librarian is Dr. Stan Larson.
For further information, email: stan.larson@library.utah.edu,
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Detailed Description of the Records
    box  1 : William E. McLellin Letter and Notebooks (1854-1880)
      All items in this box are either photocopies or transcripts of the original documents. The three notebooks by McLellin are in the Manuscripts Division Safe. The original items may be viewed with permission from the Curator of the Manuscripts Division.
      folder  1 : Letter from William E. McLellin to Relatives
      folders  2-13 : Notebook (1854-1857)
      folders  14-20 : Notebook, "Some of My History and Also about Peep-stones" (1878)
      folders  21-28 : Notebook, "Some of the Reasons Why I Am Not a Mormon" (1880)
    box  2 : Documents Written and Collected by Traughber (1884-1910)
      Folders 35-46 contain Traughber's notes on various subjects, as listed.
      folders  1-2 : Correspondence (1884-1910)
      folders  3-11 : "She Koim" and "Al Haret"
      folders  12-15 : "Scraps"
      folder  16 : "Miscellaneous"
      folder  17 : "Law and Order"
      folder  18 : "The Book of Zenos"
      folder  19 : "Concerning the Lost MSS and the Substitute Therefor"
      folder  20 : "Them Plates"
      folder  21 : "The Original Manuscript of the Book of Mormon"
      folder  22 : "Was Nephi a Plagiarist?"
      folder  23 : "David Whitmer, 'The Last Witness' of the Book of Mormon"
      folder  24 : "The Negro"
      folder  25 : "Bearing Testimony"
      folder  26 : "False Prophecies"
      folder  27 : "The Free Silver Fraud"
      folder  28 : "The Divine Plan of the Ages"
      folder  29 : "The Rebellion of South Carolina"
      folder  30 : "Mormon Character Delineated"
      folders  31-34 : The Book of Commandments
      folder  35 : The Second Child Theory
      folder  36 : Revelation
      folder  37 : Doctrine and Covenants
      folder  38 : Book of Enoch
      folder  39 : Polygamy
      folder  40 : William E. McLellin
      folder  41 : David Whitmer
      folder  42 : Joseph Smith
      folder  43 : James J. Strang
      folder  44 : Sidney Rigdon
      folder  45 : Oliver Cowdery
      folder  46 : Solomon Spaulding Manuscript
      folder  47 : Bible Excerpt
      folder  48 : Poetry
      folder  49 : Genealogy
      folder  50 : Phrenological Reading of Traughber
      folder  51 : Orchard Planning (1891)
    box  3 : Documents Collected by Traughber (1862-1887)
      folder  1 : Simon B. Needham, "The Teachings of Jesus" (1886)
      folder  2 : Clark Braden, "Thoughts for Reformers"
      folder  3 : Dr. Kennedy's Rheumatic and Neuralgia Dissolvent (1862-1863)
      folder  4 : The Herald (1887)
      folder  5 : Newspaper Articles (1880)
      folders  6-8 : Notes on Mormonism
      folder  9 : Notes on Politics
    box  4 : Newspapers (1884-1985)
      folders  1-2 : The Investigator (1884)
      folder  3 : Naked Truths about Mormonism (1888)
      folders  4-5 : Houston Chronicle (1985)
    box  5 : Books (1880)
      volume  1 : Book of Mormon, Reprinted from the Third American Edition
      volume  2 : A. Wilford Hall, Problem of Human Life: Embracing the Evolution of Sound and Evolution . . . with a Review (1880)