Manuscripts
Rachel Taylor Whittaker biography
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James Whittaker biography
Manuscripts
This typescript was written by the granddaughters of James Whittaker, Charlotte Chatterley Perkins Jones and Hattie Maria Thornton Snow. This biographical account discusses James' preparation for and emigration to Utah and his work in Cedar City. It also provides details about the lives of his four children, Ellen, James, Mary, and Sarah.
mssHM 66676
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Photocopies of portraits of William J. Canby, Rachel Fletcher, Clarissa J. Wilson, and Jacob Wilson
Manuscripts
Correspondence, manuscripts, and documents relating to William J. Canby's speech in the Pennsylvania Historical Society, including a copy of the presentation and sworn affidavits from Margaret Boggs, Rachel Fletcher, Sophia B. Hildebrandt, Susan Satterthwaite Newport, Susanna McCord Turner and Margared McCord Smith; William J. Canby's "My own recollections of Grandmother Elizabeth Claypoole," and the pencil notes to his mother and aunts.
mssHM 41760 (1-39)
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Henry Thomas Atkin biography
Manuscripts
This is a typescript of a biography of Henry Thomas Atkin written by his daughter Jetta Atkin Snow Hyatt. She describes the life of her father, covering his family life in Saint George and Atkinville; his sheep business; and his work in politics and the Mormon Church.
mssHM 66667
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Beatrice Borchardt collection
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Beatrice Spring Borchardt, chiefly relating to her research into her family's history, which included members of the Spring, MacKaye, Johns, and Peet families. Manuscript materials include unpublished drafts of biographical works by Borchardt about the family including writer Cloudesley Johns and his friendship with author Jack London; drafts of an autobiography by her grandmother Rebecca Buffum Spring; Borchardt's own unpublished biography of Spring entitled "Lady of Utopia"; a childhood journal (14 pages) of Arthur Loring MacKaye, dated from 1872 to 1885; a typescript copy of a poem, "Moods of Madness: Words," by Francis S. Saltus; and some miscellaneous pieces by Johns and his mother, Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet, Rebecca Spring, and others. Correspondence chiefly consists of letters dating from the late 1940s to the 1950s between Borchardt and cousins about family history and some earlier letters of Johns, Herbert Peet, Arthur Loring MacKaye, Benton MacKaye, as well as family friend Florence Moore Kreider. There are also some letters between Johns and Charmian London, chiefly dating from the mid 1930s to the 1940s, as well as some correspondence of Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet and Rebecca Spring dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are some printed items about family members as well as twelve photographs, including an 1897 card photograph of the Spring home at 504 North Soto Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles; a cyanotype photograph of Rebecca Spring with two women; studio portraits of Spring family members and one of Cloudesley Johns in 1900; and a snapshot of a Forest Theatre Production in Carmel, California (approximately 1915?). The earliest dated item is a copy in the handwriting of Rebecca Spring of a letter from Margaret Fuller, dated April 10, 1846. There is also a single letter from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet and a letter from Charles Warren Stoddard to Arthur Loring MacKaye, dated December 6, 1896.
mssHM 46715-46978
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Cloudesley Johns to A-K
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Beatrice Spring Borchardt, chiefly relating to her research into her family's history, which included members of the Spring, MacKaye, Johns, and Peet families. Manuscript materials include unpublished drafts of biographical works by Borchardt about the family including writer Cloudesley Johns and his friendship with author Jack London; drafts of an autobiography by her grandmother Rebecca Buffum Spring; Borchardt's own unpublished biography of Spring entitled "Lady of Utopia"; a childhood journal (14 pages) of Arthur Loring MacKaye, dated from 1872 to 1885; a typescript copy of a poem, "Moods of Madness: Words," by Francis S. Saltus; and some miscellaneous pieces by Johns and his mother, Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet, Rebecca Spring, and others. Correspondence chiefly consists of letters dating from the late 1940s to the 1950s between Borchardt and cousins about family history and some earlier letters of Johns, Herbert Peet, Arthur Loring MacKaye, Benton MacKaye, as well as family friend Florence Moore Kreider. There are also some letters between Johns and Charmian London, chiefly dating from the mid 1930s to the 1940s, as well as some correspondence of Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet and Rebecca Spring dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are some printed items about family members as well as twelve photographs, including an 1897 card photograph of the Spring home at 504 North Soto Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles; a cyanotype photograph of Rebecca Spring with two women; studio portraits of Spring family members and one of Cloudesley Johns in 1900; and a snapshot of a Forest Theatre Production in Carmel, California (approximately 1915?). The earliest dated item is a copy in the handwriting of Rebecca Spring of a letter from Margaret Fuller, dated April 10, 1846. There is also a single letter from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet and a letter from Charles Warren Stoddard to Arthur Loring MacKaye, dated December 6, 1896.
mssHM 46715-46978
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Correspondence: A-I
Manuscripts
This collection contains the papers of Beatrice Spring Borchardt, chiefly relating to her research into her family's history, which included members of the Spring, MacKaye, Johns, and Peet families. Manuscript materials include unpublished drafts of biographical works by Borchardt about the family including writer Cloudesley Johns and his friendship with author Jack London; drafts of an autobiography by her grandmother Rebecca Buffum Spring; Borchardt's own unpublished biography of Spring entitled "Lady of Utopia"; a childhood journal (14 pages) of Arthur Loring MacKaye, dated from 1872 to 1885; a typescript copy of a poem, "Moods of Madness: Words," by Francis S. Saltus; and some miscellaneous pieces by Johns and his mother, Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet, Rebecca Spring, and others. Correspondence chiefly consists of letters dating from the late 1940s to the 1950s between Borchardt and cousins about family history and some earlier letters of Johns, Herbert Peet, Arthur Loring MacKaye, Benton MacKaye, as well as family friend Florence Moore Kreider. There are also some letters between Johns and Charmian London, chiefly dating from the mid 1930s to the 1940s, as well as some correspondence of Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet and Rebecca Spring dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. There are some printed items about family members as well as twelve photographs, including an 1897 card photograph of the Spring home at 504 North Soto Street in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles; a cyanotype photograph of Rebecca Spring with two women; studio portraits of Spring family members and one of Cloudesley Johns in 1900; and a snapshot of a Forest Theatre Production in Carmel, California (approximately 1915?). The earliest dated item is a copy in the handwriting of Rebecca Spring of a letter from Margaret Fuller, dated April 10, 1846. There is also a single letter from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Jeanie Spring MacKaye Peet and a letter from Charles Warren Stoddard to Arthur Loring MacKaye, dated December 6, 1896.
mssHM 46715-46978