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V. Swanson diary and last will

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Description: Diary and last will of V. Swanson covering the period from October 4, 1917 to April 20, 1918. Entries describe game killed, weather, declining health, the making of clothes and usefuls, and mishaps on the river. Swanson was suffering from illness, snow blindness, exposure and starvation and ended the diary with a short, signed last will. His body was found by the undersigned Fred Eastrow and his partner Harry Trefzger on August 18, 1918.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1917, October 4-1918, April 22.
Call number: mssHM 14183
Creator: Swanson, V (-1918)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from: Soliday, date unknown.

Elizabeth Crozier last will and testament

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Last will and testament of Elizabeth Crozier in 1828.

mssHM 83410

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Mary Haskin Parker Richards diary

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Typescript of a diary kept by Mary Haskin Parker Richards while her husband Samuel Richards was on his mission to Great Britain from 1846-1848. The diary begins on July 22, 1846 (the first four pages are missing), while Mary was traveling with Samuel's parents in a covered wagon through Iowa. Despite the hardships of travel and living much of the time in tents, Mary writes of enjoying her sewing, cooking, and caring for ill family members. She writes of attending a council between the Twelve and "the Natives," which included "10 Indians [and] two Chiefs" in December 1846. In February 1847 Mary ventured across the frozen Missouri River and stayed in an Indian village. She recounts seeing Mormons and Indians living side-by-side although not always peacefully. She happily recounts moving into a house in April 1847 for the first time since leaving Nauvoo in May 1846. "I rejoiced to think that after...living in a tent, and wandering from house to house to keep from perishing with the Cold, [and] suffering...every inconvenience...I had once more a place I could call my home," she wrote on April 29. Much of the diary is taken up with notes on Mary's domestic activities and her attendance of lectures and apparently fiery sermons by Mormon leaders. The final entry was made on May 14, 1848. There is a gap in the diary from August to November 1846.

mssHM 27970

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John Henry Frederick Ahlert diary

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The diary covers the first trip Ahlert made to the Klondike. In it he describes his journey from Los Angeles to Dyea, including accounts of traveling conditions as well as descriptions of his surroundings. He also talks about the difficulties in mining gold as well as the frustration he experienced in registering claims along the rivers and creeks. In the last half of his diary, Ahlert describes Dawson and his life there.

mssHM 64258

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John Quincy Adams, The Hague, letter to Sylvanus Bourne, Amsterdam :

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Adams mentions the rumor that George Washington will most likely be declining a third term as president and that sources suggest Thomas Jefferson for president and R.R. Livingston for vice president. Wondering if possible to remove double tonnage paid to admiralty or higher duties paid to the Council of the Colonies.

mssHM 20320

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Jean L. Shanklin diary

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Shanklin's diary begins August 26, 1902 as she is going to begin a teaching job in Nampa, Idaho. Jean talks about the other teachers, going to teaching meetings and conventions, attending church and lectures, the weather, trips home to Ohio for the summer and trips to Oregon and Washington. While on a trip to San Francisco, she visits Cooper Medical College and Lane Hospital and talks about her late uncle Elias Cooper. Shanklin wrote several times a year in her diary and her last entry is June 1, 1915.

mssHM 72321

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Diaries

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There are 40 volumes of diaries from 1926 to 1964, with a diary from 1918. In the diaries, Ryerson glued in photographs, clippings, and other ephemera, and wrote about her personal and professional life including her writing, scripts, costumes, and other aspects of theater and motion pictures.

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