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Carrie B. Call diary
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Eliza Roxey Snow diaries
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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.
mssHM 27522 (1-2)
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Carrie Belle Deal Ellis diary and receipt book
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A manuscript diary kept by Carrie Belle Deal Ellis from December 5, 1892 to May 15, 1893. The diary, written in pencil, records her daily life along with occasional entries listing her expenditures. The entries detail her activities, including painting, and other experiences, and thoughts, as well as her travels, health, the lives of her children, and other domestic concerns. The diary is bound in contemporary sheep with some minor edge wear and soiling, the rear endpaper is loose and some pages at the front of the volume have been removed. The diary is accompanied by a receipt book dated from 1909 to 1912, from the area of Auburn, California. The first entry is 152 which would indicate this volume is part of a series of receipt books. This volume was found with the diary, though there are no details within the book that directly ties it to Carrie Ellis. But, as the Ellis family lived in Washington, California, very near Auburn, it is possible this receipt book belonged to her or a family member. The receipt book is contemporary quarter brown cloth and marbled paper boards, with some creasing on the back cover, and damage to the spine.
mssHM 84129
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Mae Donovan Dihel diary of a trip to Mexico City
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Diary kept by Donnie Dihel while on her trip from Lexington, Kentucky, to Mexico City in 1938. The author makes several comments about the conditions she saw due to the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. She also makes several comments regarding the African Americans she saw during her travels as well as the people of Mexico. Accompanied by a letter to Mae Donovan Dihel and a family-related clipping, 1937 and 1951.
mssHM 84013
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Alpha Marsh Cary travel diary
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Although the diary is unsigned, it is reasonable to believe the diary was written by Alpha Marsh Cary from San Diego. The diary was kept during a journey that she and her parents took from San Diego to the East Coast and back again. Besides visiting family along the way, and in upstate New York, the family traveled through Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New York City. On their journey home, they visited family in Colorado, stopped at the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, and visited San Francisco. The author details some of the activities she did while on the trip including reading, sewing, playing cards, going to amusement parks and Vaudeville shows, and seeing "moving pictures." The family also toured a medical museum near Washington, DC, led by its head, Dr. Daniel Lamb, and the Johns Hopkins Institute. They traveled by automobiles, train, streetcars, and even a steamer.
mssHM 84017
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Mrs. C. H. Ackerman diary
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Mrs. C. H. Ackerman wrote this diary of her travels from July to September 1886. She and her husband Neal took a trip starting from Susquehanna, PA to Wilkes-Barre, going on to Patterson, New Jersey, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Ohio, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City where they stayed at the Coates House, and then to Fort Leavenworth. From there, they traveled to Denver, Colorado Springs, Leadville, San Francisco, Yosemite, and Salt Lake City. The diary also covers their trip back east with numerous observations concerning mining towns, seeing many Chinese quarters in the larger towns, and noting the scenery. Mrs. C. H. Ackerman provided a faithful and candid description of her travels through the American West, covering both the elegant and refined to the arduous and exhausting to the awe-inspiring. With the diary is a letter by E. R. Payson to Mrs. Ackerman, 1890, February 17.
mssHM 83113
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Orson W. Huntsman diary
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Typescript of Orson W. Huntsman's diary spanning 1868-1890. The diary appears to be more of an autobiography that may have been compiled at a later date. It covers Huntsman's early life in Iowa, the whipping of his father by a mob in Illinois, his arrival at Salt Lake City and settlement at Lake Point, a subsequent move to Beaver County, the coming of Johnston's Army and the Utah War, a list of settlers at Shole Creek, his work on a telegraph line, comments on polygamy, notes on the Pulsipher family, his experiences with a United Order, his travels throughout Utah, and a Huntsman family genealogy. The majority of the daily entries focus on Huntsman's home and community life at various settlements in Utah.
mssHM 27979