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Selected Bibliography
Church Records and Administrative Files
During the time the authors researched these materials, some were moved from the Relief Society Headquarters to the Archives of the Historical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah, cited as Church Archives. Archives staff members have inventoried most of the Relief Society's historical materials, and it should be noted that the Church Archives will most likely be the eventual repository for all Relief Society records and files.
General Manuscript Records
Auxiliary Executive Files, 1923-1938. Church Archives.
Bancroft, H. H. Mormon Collection. Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.
Church Union Board Executive Committee Minutes and Church Union Board Minutes. Church Archives.
First Council of Seventy Minutes and Early Records, 1844-1848. Church Archives.
First Presidency General Administration Correspondence. Church Archives. Historian's Office Journal. Church Archives.
Journal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This scrapbook chronicle of events in LDS Church history was maintained by Church historians to represent the years 1830-1972. The original is in Church Archives, with microform copy at Harold B. Lee Libraries, Brigham Young University, and elsewhere.
Moyle, James. Oral History Collection. Church Archives.
Presiding Bishopric Bishops Meeting Minutes. Church Archives.
Presiding Bishopric Office Journals, 1901-1946. Church Archives.
Seventies Quorum Records, Second Quorum, 1844-1894. Church Archives.
Senior and Junior Cooperative Retrenchment Association Minutes. Church Archives.
Smith, Joseph. Diaries, 1832-1844. Church Archives.
-. Letterbooks. Church Archives.
Social Advisory Committee Minutes, 19I.6-1922. Church Archives.
Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.
Women's Committee on Dancing and Dress Report. Church Archives. Young, Brigham. Incoming Correspondence. Church Archives.
Letterbooks. Church Archives.
Unpublished Sermons. Church Archives.
Relief Society Manuscript Records
Relief Society General Records
"A Record of the Organization, and Proceedings of the Female Relief Society
of Nauvoo," 1842-1844. Holograph. Church Archives.
"Record of the Relief Society from First Organization to Conference Apr 5, I.892, Book U." Catalogued as Relief Society Record, 188o-1892. Holograph volume kept by general secretary Sarah M. Kimball, including retrospective accounts.
Relief Society [General Board] Minutes, I 892-191 1. Three holograph volumes of general board meeting and conference minutes were kept by general secretary Emmeline B. Wells. Vol. 1, October lo, 1892, to April 8, 19ol; Vol. 2, June 22, lgoi, to April 13, l9o6; vOl. 3, May 19o6 to April 8, 1911. A fourth volume, apparently used for drafting minutes, covers October lo, 1892, to October 3, A96. Church Archives.