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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Documents from ELP's papers

These are some interesting documents taken from a small notebook of ELP.

This first one intrigues me in particular. It talks of Ann going through the "house," which, based on the rest of the paragraph, makes me think he's referring to the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, where Ann received her endowments 17 July 1857. At the bottom of the sheet, ELP mentions James G. Bleak, a noted historian of southern Utah in the 19th century.

Here are ELP's political views:

Here are ELP's notes on his son, Edward Thomas Parry (1859-1938), getting baptized proxy for ET's maternal grandfather, Thomas Parry (Ann's father):

Notes on more temple work:

Notice of transfer of funds from ELP to two of his daughters, Harriet and Emma (the only children of his to reach maturity and never marry), ELP wrote this four months before dying:

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