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Show -- PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED SOURCES Primary sources on the life of Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver include her diaries, 1914-15, and 1927-30, among the papers in the Madelyn Stewart Collection of Barnard and Cherry Silver, Salt Lake City. Her diaries, 1917-27, and the trip diaries for 1949 and 1959 are in pos session of Roxanne Clawson Davis, San Jose, California, typescript kindly furnished to me. Another set of diaries cover the years 1924, 1929-61, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1959, 1960, and 1961, typescript copies furnished by Elizabeth Clawson, Denver. Several hundred letters, beginning as early as 1924 and continuing until shortly before her death in 1961 are in the Silver Manuscript Collection. Her ledger books, beginning in 1942 and continuing to 1957 are also in the Silver Manuscript Collection, as are the Harold F. Silver Scrapbooks. A type script of the "Madelyn Silver Funeral Services," September 29, 1961, is in possession of the writer. I have also had access to Madelyn's Campfire record book and a notebook kept by Madelyn when she was teaching (or taking) a Book of Mormon class at L.D .S. University in 1924-25. Letters of Madelyn to Harold, her mother, her family, and Louise Richards Covey are in BQSC. The material in the Brian Silver Collection, now in the possession of Barnard and Cherry Silver, Salt Lake City, was described in the Preface. Madelyn's diary is continuous for some years, intermittent for oth There are no diary entries for 1934, 1938, 1943-46, 1948-57, and 1959. The diary ends with an entry on September 14, 1961, twelve days before Madelyn's death. Her diary is honest, mentions ers. faults and mistakes, and focuses on her determination to live a wor- 319 |
