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Show 320 Published and Unpublished Sources thy and honorable life. By and large, the diary is in excellent prose, gives Madelyn's inward feelings, and is usually complimentary of other people; it avoids gossip. If she was sometimes ruthless in her commentary on others she loved, she was equally unsparing of herself. In the reconciliations of her conflicts, her fairness and joy of living, her fairness shines clearly. Her vitality, her dependence on the restoration that nearness to nature produced, her response to color and beauty, her compassion, honesty, and abiding love of Harold are all poignant ly revealed in her diaries and letters. The diary was always in a per sonal hand; so were all of her letters until October 1954, after which some of them were dictated to Harold's secretary and were mailed in typewritten form. Information on the Stewart and Cannon families is found in the LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City; Beatrice Cannon Evans and Janath Russell Cannon, eds., Cannon Family Historical Treasury (Salt Lake City: George Cannon Family Association, 1967), esp. 190-216, 321-38, and 220-23. Also "Barnard Joseph Stewart," in Men of Affairs in the State of Utah (Salt Lake City: Press Club, 1914), [36]; Madelyn Stewart Silver, "Ann Mousley Cannon: A Story of Vision and Accomplishment," The Improvement Era 53 (February 1950); 107, 134-135; and Frank Esshom, ed., Pioneers and of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Co., 1913), entries for Stewart, 1186-87. Madelyn's early life is told in Ruth S. Romney, Glimpses of My Childhood (Salt Lake City: Privately Printed, 1975); and Ruth Stewart Romney, Autobiography of Ruth Stewart Romney (Rexburg, Idaho: Millhollow Publishers, 1991). By the sister of Madelyn. A brief histo ry of Forest Dale Ward is in Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1941), esp. 253-54. The history of LDS Academy and LDS University is described in Jenson, Encyclopedic History, 416-17; D. Michael Quinn, "The Brief Career of Young University at Salt Lake City," Utah Historical Quarterly 41 (Winter 1973): 69-89; and Leonard J. Arrington, "The Latter-day Saints and Public Education," Southwestern Journal of Social Education 7 (Spring-Summer 1977): 9-25. The setting for Madelyn's experience at the University of Utah is found in Ralph V. Chamberlin, The University of Utah: A History of Its First Hundred Years (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1960); The 1923 Utonian, University of Utah, 109, 148,202,248, 256, 264, 274, 307; The 1924 Utonian, University of Utah, 60, 139, 150,274,282, 307; issues of The University Pen, University of Utah, Prominent Men ... |
