Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for 2008

• POW during Christmas
  Posted December 5, 2008 by Kristi Young

  George Easton Brown (MSS 2350 no. 359) was a prisoner of war in Manchuria during the Christmas season of 1944.  He wrote the following about the experience: It was Christmas Eve, and we could cut the gloom that engulfed us with a knife.  What a way to spend Christmas Eve.  One man by the name [...]

• In Honorable Remembrance: Thomas L. Kane and the Latter-day Saints
  Posted November 7, 2008 by Andrew

  BYU’s L. Tom Perry Special Collections has been gathering Thomas L. Kane family papers into its collections for many years. We now have the largest collection of Thomas L. Kane manuscripts in the world (regarding Kane’s life and work see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Kane). For this Exhibit, we are drawing from this rich archive original manuscripts, rare books [...]

• “We were hit.” An excerpt from a World War II pilot’s history
  Posted October 3, 2008 by Kristi Young

  Richard Junius Petit, a World War II veteran, was captured by the Germans on March 16, 1944. The following excerpt is from History According to Richard Junius Petit: The War Years 1942-1945. “We were hit by German fighters just after crossing the border of France. Our position had been as the last plane in the [...]

• Rare Welsh Mormon Publications
  Posted September 8, 2008 by Larry Draper

  During the entire month of September 2008 the L. Tom Perry Special Collections will host an exhibition of rare Welsh Mormon publications authored or translated by Welsh convert John Davis. The exhibit, located in the foyer of Special Collections on level 1 of the Harold B. Lee Library, affords an opportunity for all interested to [...]