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Leon T. Loofbourow Collection of Mormon and Utah Poetry

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Loofbourow, Leon T.

Loofbourow was an American author and collector of Mormon and Utah poetry.

The collection consists, for the most part, of manuscripts of works of Mormon and Utah poets collected by Loofbourow, including Claire Stewart Boyer, Maurice Churchill, Clarence E. Eddy, W. Eder, Maude Blixt Frome, Mary Clark Kimball, Cleone Montgomery, Genevieve Selender, Jane Sheean, Lois V. Smith, and Rachel B. Taft. Also included are a notebook, "Contemporary Verse," by Percy Horne containing newspaper clippings of poems which appeared in The Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah); a collection of parodies of well-known poems, Utah Sings C.O.D., with contributions by various Utah and Mormon poets; transcripts of a play, The Viking King, and an essay, "Richard Strauss" (1908), by W. Eger; and a commonplace book (1858) by Hannah Topfield King. In addition, there are some of Loofbourow's notes, his typescript of a critical appraisal of Clarence E. Eddy's poems written for the Salt Lake City Tribune (July 12, 1936), and a fragment of a typescript on Alfred Lambourne's poems.

The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.

AM 77-143.

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Folder inventory added by Nicholas Williams '2015 in 2012.

No appraisal information is available.

Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
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The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Boyer, Claire Stewart: Poems, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Churchill, Maurice: Poems, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Eddy, Clarence E: Newspaper Article, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Frone, Maude Blixt, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Horne: Poetry, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Eger, W: "The Viking King" and "Richard Strauss", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Kimball, Mary Clark: "Sand and Shells", undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Miller, William Archer: Anti-Mormon Letter, 30 March 1845. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Montgomery, Cleone: Poems, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Selander, Genevieve: Poems, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Sheean, Jane: Utah Poetry, 1935. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Smith, Lois V., undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Taft, Rachel B, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Poems by Miscellaneous Poets, 1934. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Contemporary Verse, by Percy Horne, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Album of Pictures and Newspaper Clippings About Sarah Carmichael, 1937. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Utah Singes God (50 million Sea-Gulls Can't Be Wrong), undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Original Sonnets, by E. Hanham, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Eddy, Clarence E, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Notebook with List of Poems, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Binder of Poems, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

An Album of Hannah Jafofield King, undated. 1 folder.
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1 folder

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