Personal papers of Leonard J. Arrington, 1917-1999.

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Personal papers of Leonard J. Arrington, 1917-1999.

Correspondence, New Year's Resolutions, speeches given in junior high school and high school, drafts of autobiographies and memoirs, scrapbooks, documents about his military service, his files of newspaper and magazine clippings, his exams from the University of Idaho, his class notes from the University of North Carolina, and his extensive diary which runs from the 1930s to 1998 (sealed until 2010).

50.5 linear ft. (101 boxes)

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Utah State University. Libraries. Special Collections and Archives.

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Arrington family.

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Arrington, Leonard J. (Leonard James)

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Leonard J. Arrington was historian of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1972 to 1982. The first professional historian and the first noncentral authority to occupy this position. Arrington opened archival resources and presided over an unprecedented era of enlightenment in Mormon scholarship. From the description of Leonard J. Arrington miscellaneous images, circa 1880-196u. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367935916 Leo Arrington is a black Mormon, a boxer,...

Bartholomew, Rebecca, 1945-….

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