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T O R I C A L NOTES oc^Z
The Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Utah State Historical Society will be held in Salt Lake City on Saturday, September 8, 1973. Details on the program will be announced in the Society's Newsletter, and registration information will be mailed to all members and to others upon request. An article published in Utah Historical Quarterly, Fall 1971, has received the Mormon History Association's award for the best recent article on Mormon history. The $25 award was presented at the association's April 1973 meeting in Salt Lake City to Henry J. \Volfinger for "A Reexamination of the Woodruff Manifesto in the Light of Utah Constitutional History.*, The association granted a special award to S. George Ellsworth for his seventh grade history text, Utah's Heritage, which was published last year by Peregrine Smith, Incorporated. The diary of Seymour Bicknell Young (1837-1924) for the years 1876-85 has been accessioned by the Utah State Historical Society library. The record includes numerous comments on news events of the day, a report of Brigham Young's final illness and death, and information on medical practice (Young was an M.D.) and church and territorial affairs. The diary ends twenty-seven months after Young's appointment to the LDS First Council of Seventy. A biographical article about a poet son of Mormon leader Joseph Smith, "The Sweet Singer of Israel: David Flyrum Smith," by Paul M. Edwards was given Courage magazine's best article award for 1972. A plaque noting the award was presented at the Mormon History Association meeting April 5. The article appeared in Courage: A Journal of History, Thought, and Action, Summer 1972 issue, and earlier in Brigham Young University Studies, Winter 1972.
