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• Capt. Dan Jones Exhibit
  Posted February 8, 2010 by Larry Draper

  Capt. Dan Jones – missionary to Wales To celebrate the bi-centennial year of the birth of Capt. Dan Jones, the well known missionary to Wales, the L. Tom Perry Special Collections of the Brigham Young University Library is hosting an exhibition of many of his writings and publications. (Special Collections is located on the first [...]

• Celebrating Wallace Stegner
  Posted February 18, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Today marks the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner. Stegner, who spent part of his teenage years Salt Lake City and received a BA from the University of Utah, wrote short stories, novels, and non-fiction. He was also a well-known conservationist and teacher, who mentored such acclaimed contemporary American authors like Edward Abbey, [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]