Manuscripts

E. M. Woodward diary

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Description: With auction catalog description.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862-1863.
Call number: mssHM 8250
Creator: Woodward, E. M(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1955.
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Amasa M. Lyman diary

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Typescript of Amasa Lyman's diary, covering the years 1847 and 1858-1863. The first part of the diary is dated April-September 1847 and describes the overland travels of Lyman and his company of Mormon pioneers. It begins with their departure from Winter Quarters, Iowa, and describes camping near the Platte River, finding an abandoned Pawnee village, sighting buffalo, crossing the North Fork above Laramie, and camping in the Salt Lake Valley. On August 9 the diary notes, "city named 'Salt Lake City, Great Basin, North America'." The 1847 diary was recorded by Albert Carrington and refers to Lyman in the third person. The second part of the diary, identified as Journal #16, covers 1858-1863 and describes Lyman's travels from April 18-July 2, 1857, along the California Road and Indian Trail from the Rio Virgin. It continues with his participation in an exploratory party that traveled south from Cedar City, Utah, to Las Vegas, the Vegas Fort, and the Mojave Desert from January-May 1858, and also charts its return to Salt Lake City. References are made to Hyatt's war with the Apaches and Lyman's encounters with an Indian chief he calls Oat-sen-a-wantz. The final section of the diary, kept from December 1862 to April 1863, describes Lyman's daily life near Farmington, Utah, including his attendance of the local theatre, a listing of the books he was reading, and his encounters with John Taylor. Includes a description of the original diary.

mssHM 27980

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Woodward's country homes

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Woodward's Country homes

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372841

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The book of Joshua

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The Book of Joshua according to the Samaritans. With auction description.

mssHM 1122

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Qur'an

Manuscripts

Possibly created in India. Binding is 18th century. With auction description in German.

mssHM 55679

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George W. Woodward letters and poem

Manuscripts

Letters by George W. Woodward to family from 1861 to 1865. There is also a poem he wrote about his experience in the war, entitled "Something Awful." All materials are typescripts.

mssHM 49530-49538

E. M. Woodward diary

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