Manuscripts
Luther Osborn diaries
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Luther Osborn papers
Manuscripts
The collection consists primarily of regimental administrative matters: returns of clothing, camp, and garrison equipment; rations; muster out rolls; and miscellaneous papers including requisitions.
mssOsborn
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Alan McCaw Royal diaries
Manuscripts
Alan's diaries include details about her daily activities: social events and visits with family and friends; teaching and attending teachers' meetings; and attending church and its various functions.
mssHM 71878-71882
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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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David Osborne autobiography
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Typescript of an autobiography begun by David Osborne (also spelled Osborn) in February 1860. Osbourne recounts his childhood in Virginia, his conversion to Mormonism, persecutions against the Mormons, the Osbournes' travels throughout Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, the deaths of his wife and several of their children, and his life in Utah. The autobiography covers the years from 1807 to 1870. A note written by David A. Osborne records the death of his father in 1893.
mssHM 27971
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George L. Couch diary
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The diary of George L. Couch of Boscawen, New Hampshire, covers the years 1854 to 1856. In addition to entries depicting everyday life of a farmer, the diary includes discussion of political and social life in New Hampshire and Massachusetts and Couch's literary interests. There are entries covering political parties and meetings, including those held in conjunction with gubernatorial elections (Mr. Couch attended a "Democratic Caucus"), religious meetings, lectures, Know-Nothings, etc.
mssHM 65248
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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