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Snow on cholera : being a reprint of two papers
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Bound typescript of the autobiography of Erastus Fairbanks Snow, covering the years from approximately 1818 to 1847. The text essentially begins with Snow's baptism into the Mormon Church in about 1833 and traces his travels to Kirtland, Ohio. The rest of the autobiography focuses on Snow's itinerant preaching of the Mormon religion, particularly in the Virginia area.
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Two diary volumes kept by Eliza R. Snow, primarily during her travels from Nauvoo, Illinois, to Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1846-1847. The first diary begins with Eliza's departure from Nauvoo with the family of Stephen Markham (Eliza lived in the Markhams' attic room for a time) in Heber Kimball's company. It traces their travels through Iowa and their time waiting out the winter weather at Winter Quarters. Eliza writes of the difficulties of the trip, particularly dissent among the traveling companions and their many illnesses and deaths. She thinly masks her intense loneliness ("Altho' so much alone, I feel no despondency," she wrote. "Surely happiness is not altogether the product of circumstances."). She initially tried to find support from Heber Kimball (she writes that she asked to be "number'd among his children...[and] from this time I call him father"), but ultimately found solace in religion and camaraderie with her sister-wives and other women in the company. Eliza also described her experiences driving a wagon, trading with the Pottawatomie tribe, and encounters with hostile Indians (she writes of the shooting of an Omaha Indian chief by a rival tribe in December 1846). The diary also contains a variety of poems and epitaphs, including "The Camp of Israel, A Song for Pioneers" (No.1, No.2, and No.3, also titled "Let Us Go"); "In All Things Rejoice," a song for the Camp of Israel; "A Journeying Song for the Camp of Israel, dedicated to Prest. Young & Lady;" "The Twelve, To Prest. B. Young;" and "To the Saints in Europe." (The pages with entries made between August 17, 1846, and October 28, 1846, are missing). The second diary volume resumes in June 1847, when Eliza left Iowa in the wagon of Robert Peirce, which was part of the Second Fifty headed by Bates Noble. The diary traces the company's travels across the plains and their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley in the autumn of 1847. In Utah Eliza initially shared a cabin with Clara Decker Young and made caps to trade for other goods, and the diary recounts her experiences through September 1849. It also includes her poem "A Song of the Desart [sic]." Individuals mentioned in the diaries include Heber Kimball, Stephen Markham, Parley P. Pratt, Lorenzo Snow, Brigham Young, and Mary Ann Angell Young.
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Report from Erastus Snow on settlements in Washington County and Kane County, Utah, as well as settlements in Arizona. Includes descriptions of the acreage, cost, and irrigation qualities of the St. George Field Dam on the Rio Virgin, canals on the St. George Field on the Santa Clara, and canals on the St. George Heberville Field. Snow also lists populations and crop (mainly cotton) conditions for various settlements in southern Utah, including St. George (pop. 1030), Washington and Harrisburg (pop.603), Santa Clara (pop. 247), Toquerville (pop. 180), Harmony (pop. 140), Kanara (pop. 85), Rockville (pop. 430), and Virgin City (pop. 405). He also lists populations for St. Thomas, Arizona (pop. 129) and Mill Point, Arizona (pop. 167). Crop reports for Grafton, Springdale, Shonesburg, Northup, Duncan's Retreat, and Mountain Dell are also included.
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In these 27 letters by Lord Snow to John Halperin, who is the author of C. P. Snow: An oral biography (1983), Snow talks about his new book A Coat of Varnish, and answers some of Halperin's questions regarding his life and career. Snow also talks about letters of his and access to them, particularly at the Humanities Research Centre at Texas. He also talks about his failing health. The last letter was written about a month before his death in July 1980. All of the letters are typewritten.
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