Finding Aid for the Lamoni Call Papers LSC.1158
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Title: Lamoni Call papers
Creator:
Call, Lamoni
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1158
Physical Description:
2.5 Linear Feet
(5 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1898-1926
Abstract: Lamoni Call (b.1865) was a dissenter from the Mormon faith. He published various pamphlets questioning Mormon beliefs, including
Science and Mormonism (1926). The collection consists of Call's correspondence, manuscripts, notes, books, and memoranda. Almost all the items
relate to his research and writings on Mormonism.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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- Gift of Dortha C. Causey, 1975.
- Gift of Ardith Call Kreis, 1975.
- Gift of La Mar A. Call, 1975.
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[Identification of item], Lamoni Call Papers (Collection 1158). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Biography
Call was born in 1865; he lived in Bountiful and Salt Lake City, Utah, and was a dissenter from the Mormon faith; published
various pamphlets questioning Mormon beliefs, including
Science and Mormonism (1926).
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, books, and memoranda of Lamoni Call, a dissenter from the Mormon
faith. Almost all the items relate to his research and writings on Mormonism and the various pamphlets he published questioning
Mormon beliefs.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence (Box 1).
- Manuscripts, notes and memoranda (Boxes 1-2).
- Printed items by Lamoni Call (Box 2).
- Printed items marked or annotated by Lamoni Call (Boxes 2-4).
- Unmarked items (Box 4).
- Periodicals (Box 5).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mormon Church
Mormons.
Manuscripts for publication
Dissenters, Religious -- Utah -- Archives.
Call, Lamoni--Archives.
Correspondence
1921-1933 and n.d.
General Physical Description note: (4 folders)
box 1, folder 1
From Lamoni Call to Emerson and Fern Call
1921-25 and n.d.
General Physical Description note: (5 letters)
box 1, folder 2
Between Lamoni Call and various persons
re Mormonism
1923-33, and n.d.
General Physical Description note: (13 letters)
box 1, folder 3
From O.J. Call to Lamoni Call
1926
General Physical Description note: (2 letters)
box 1, folder 4
Between Lamoni Call and the Freethought Press Association
1932-33
General Physical Description note: (6 letters, 2 envelopes)
Manuscripts, Notes and Memoranda
1884[?]-1925 and n.d.
General Physical Description note: (53 folders)
box 1, folder 5
"An address to the Latter-Day Saints"
General Physical Description note: (4 leaves)
box 1, folder 6
"Antiquities"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (11 leaves)
box 1, folder 7
"Apparitions. The Writer's Experience"
General Physical Description note: (3 leaves)
box 1, folder 8
"Book of Mormon antiquities"
General Physical Description note: (43 leaves)
box 1, folder 9
"Book of Mormon history"
General Physical Description note: (21 leaves)
box 1, folder 10
"Book of Mormon history. Unreasonable and impossible"
General Physical Description note: (37 leaves)
box 1, folder 11
"The Book of Mormon - prophetic evidence, and prophecy plain"
General Physical Description note: (38 leaves)
box 1, folder 12
"Book of Mormon. Translation"
General Physical Description note: (42 leaves)
box 1, folder 13
"Constructive or destructive"
General Physical Description note: (4 leaves)
box 1, folder 14
"Contradictions"
General Physical Description note: (13 leaves)
box 1, folder 15
"Cover tinted with Argument"
General Physical Description note: (2 leaves)
box 1, folder 16
"Doctrine"
General Physical Description note: (18 leaves)
box 1, folder 17
"Do Mormon leaders dictate to their members in political matters?"
General Physical Description note: ( 3 leaves)
box 1, folder 18
"The eighteenth amendment"
General Physical Description note: (5 leaves)
box 1, folder 19
"Faith"
General Physical Description note: (43 leaves)
box 1, folder 20
"Faith: Gospel faith from a Mormon point of view"
General Physical Description note: (7 leaves)
box 1, folder 21
"The good join the church"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (2 different copies, each 7 leaves)
box 1, folder 22
"A heart to heart talk with my Mormon friends"
General Physical Description note: (2 leaves)
box 1, folder 23
"High spots"
General Physical Description note: (5 pieces)
box 1, folder 24
"How did Joseph Smith receive revelations?"
General Physical Description note: (21 leaves)
box 1, folder 25
"The hub"
General Physical Description note: (7 leaves)
box 1, folder 26
"Is it the duty of government to look after individuals?"
General Physical Description note: (7 leaves)
box 1, folder 27
"Is Mormonism a religion?"
General Physical Description note: (3 leaves)
box 1, folder 28
"Joseph Smith's early life"
General Physical Description note: (20 leaves)
box 1, folder 29
"Joseph Smith's word"
General Physical Description note: 2 different copies, each 11 leaves)
box 1, folder 30
"Let us get acquainted"
General Physical Description note: (3 leaves)
box 1, folder 31
"Manner of translating the Book of Mormon"
General Physical Description note: (56 leaves)
box 1, folder 32
"The Mormon god"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (6 leaves)
box 1, folder 33
"Mormon god; Mormon hell; & Fell to the earth"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (29 leaves)
box 1, folder 34
"The Mormon heaven"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (7 leaves)
box 1, folder 35
"The Mormon hell"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (9 leaves)
box 1, folder 36
"Mormon persecution"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (105 leaves)
box 1, folder 37
"Mormon polygamy: introduction"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (5 leaves)
box 1, folder 38
"Mormon testimony"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (2 leaves)
box 1, folder 39
"Mormonism is admittedly wrong by about sixty percent of the people of Utah"
July 25, 1925
General Physical Description note: (2 leaves)
box 1, folder 40
"Mormonism unravelled"
1924
General Physical Description note: (2 different copies)
box 2, folder 1
"Mormonism. Well? What of it? Just this"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (5 leaves)
box 2, folder 2
"The murderous knights of Columbus"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (3 leaves)
box 2, folder 3
"Pre-existence of spirits"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (10 leaves)
box 2, folder 4
"Prophecy plain"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (18 leaves)
box 2, folder 5
"Revelation and prophecy on war given December 25, 1332"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (10 leaves)
box 2, folder 6
"Revelation 22a"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (3 leaves)
box 2, folder 7
"Riches"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (1 piece)
box 2, folder 8
"Roberts on inspiration"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (6 leaves)
box 2, folder 9
"Science and Mormonism"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (57 leaves)
box 2, folder 10
"A shocking homoside (sic)"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (9 leaves)
box 2, folder 11
"A simple theorem"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (2 leaves)
box 2, folder 12
"A suggestion worth $1,000,000 to the Church"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (4 leaves)
box 2, folder 13
"Testimony"
November 15, 1925
General Physical Description note: (1 piece)
box 2, folder 14
"Unreasonable history of the Book of Mormon"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: 4 different copies, 99 leaves)
box 2, folder 15
"Wanted on the other side"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (1 leaf)
box 2, folder 16
"Was Mormonism revealed? Or did it evolve?"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (7 leaves)
box 2, folder 17
"What would you think?"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (2 leaves)
box 2, folder 18
"Which? Mormon veracity or Mormon mendacity?"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (1 piece)
box 2, folder 19
"Who should have this magazine and why?"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (2 leaves)
box 2, folder 20
"A word with non-Mormons"
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (9 leaves)
box 2, folder 21
Miscellaneous notes and memoranda
n.d.
General Physical Description note: (11 pieces)
box 2, folder 22
Notebook, "Lamoni Call's Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel"
1884[?]
General Physical Description note: (105pp., some unused)
box 2, folder 22
Card file of notes
re various subjects relevant to Call's research
n.d.
Printed Items - Lamoni Call
General Physical Description note: (3 folders)
box 2, folder 23
2000 changes in the Book of Mormon. Bountiful
1898
box 2, folder 24
The Anti-Mormon (vol.1, no.2-4). Bountiful
May 1899-April 1902
box 2, folder 25
Evidence not slander (vol.1). Science and Mormonism. Salt Lake City
February 1926
Printed Items, Marked or Annotated by Lamoni Call
General Physical Description note: (4 folders and 27 volumes)
box 2, folder 26
Book of Commandments for the Government of the Church of Christ. W.W. Phelps & Company
1903
box 2, folder 27
19 pamphlets
re Mormonism
1920-1931
box 3, box 4
27 books
Scope and Contents note
Including:
box 3
The story of the Mormons. New York: MacMillan
1923
box 3
Science and belief in God. Salt Lake City: The Deseret News
1924
box 3
A series of pamphlets on the Doctrines of the gospel. Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor office
1884
box 3
A dictionary of the Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City: Joseph Hyrum Parry
1891
box 3
The myth of the "Manuscript Found". Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor office
1853
box 3
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (vol.1-2). Salt Lake City: The Desert News
1902-1904
box 3
Biographical sketches of Joseph Smith ... Liverpool: S.W. Richards for Orson Pratt
1953
box 3
The Rocky Mountain Saints. Salt Lake City, Shepherd Book Company
1904
box 4
History of Utah (vol.1-2). Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons Company
1892-1893
box 4
Miscellaneous books about Mormonism
General Physical Description note: (16 items)
box 5
Miscellaneous pamphlets, broadsheets and newspapers, almost all
re Mormonism
General Physical Description note: (57 items)
box 5
The People's Press
1921-1925
- vol.24, no.10 (December 1921).
- vol.27, no.9 (November 1924).
- vol.28, no.5 (July 1925).
box 5
Light on Mormonism
1922-1933
- vol.1-10. (1922-March 1932) bound together.
- vol.11, no.2-3 (July-December 1932).
- vol.12, no.1 (June 1933).
box 5
The New Era, a periodical dedicated to the interest of Zion and her cause
1931-1933
- Preliminary issue and no.1-12, and 17 (May 1931-May 1932 and February-March 1933).
- Prospectus 1921, and Bulletin, April 1932 for same.
