Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for December, 2007

  • Library Places Missionary Diary Collection Online
    Posted December 12, 2007 by news

    When Lucy Mack Smith, mother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, hand-decorated a diary for her missionary son, Hyrum, she certainly never imagined it would end up in the archives at Brigham Young University — or on the Internet (lib.byu.edu/dlib/mmd).
    Hyrum Smith’s diary is the oldest of 575 diaries written by early missionaries of The Church of [...]