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Charles Hoyt Thorpe journal
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Charles Hoyt Thorpe's journal, autobiography, and genealogy, kept from 1913 until 1938 and intended to be a family record for his daughters. Includes detailed accounts of his family history, including ancestors on his father's side back to William Thorpe, a settler in New Haven, Connecticut in the 1630s, and on his mother's side to Massachusetts in the 1640s. Continues with a biographical account of his parents and an autobiographical account of his childhood and young adulthood, including his courtship of Mary Moore (with references to their attendance of the Tournament of Roses in 1907) and his experience of the San Francisco Earthquake. The majority of the volume consists of journal entries from throughout the Thorpes' married life, including a flood that destroyed their orchard in 1914, trips to Oregon and Michigan, and their move to Malibu. Also included are references to World War I (of which Thorpe writes "While I have not offered my services, I have purchased...each series of bonds as issued"), including the death of Thorpe's brother Harvey while in transport to Europe in November 1918, and the influenza outbreak of 1918-1919. Included in the volume is a watercolor of the house Thorpe was born in in Iowa, a photograph of his first schoolhouse in Whittier, and a photograph of his and Mary's "trysting place" in a woodland clearing. Also included is a pamphlet from Los Angeles High School's 1896 graduation ceremony.
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Diaries and Sketchbook of James Haggerty
Manuscripts
The first of the three Haggerty volumes covers his journey from Arizona to San Diego, with six fellow ex-soldiers, as well as his voyage to San Francisco and his brief stay there in 1870. In this volume he describes his experiences in Arizona, a party he goes to in Tucson, the Arizona landscape, the various post stations he passes, and the native peoples he encounters. Haggerty also discusses in detail the amount of alcohol he and his "buddies" drink along the trail which often results in them being hung over and losing their way. Haggerty also talks about San Diego, San Pedro and San Francisco.
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James Trott to C.S. Trott
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Autograph letter by James Trott from Galena, Illinois to his sister C.S. Trott, on January 11, 1843. Trott starts the letter with a joke concerning a sketch of a wagon in the letter. He begins, "This is a wagon used by the western people & is called a prairie schooner...sometimes horses are used. I saw one at Chicago...which had a stove on it & must therefore I think have been a prairie steamer" (p. 1). Next, Trott briefly touches upon family matters concerning letters received and sent. The bulk of the letter is in regards to religion. He discusses a very fine preacher named Mr. Holbrook from Dubuque, Iowa, but had one critical observation. "The only improvemn't w'd have been for him to have clearly understood the consequences flowing from this doctrine - the phrase 'Christian duties' seems to be an unfortunate one for it implies that some duties, as being a s.s. teacher, are Christian, while others are not Christian duties..." (p. 1). In another event, while attending a Methodist church one evening, Trott mentions a preacher that once "...knock a man down - a Methodist preacher had to do so once it was the only way in which he c'd maul the grace of God into the man." (p. 2). He also writes about a threatening blacksmith turned preacher and his thoughts on Sunday school. In the second half of the letter, Trott introduces his friend William Tell Wynkoop and the abundance of mining in the region. He writes about descending approximately 55 feet into a lead with only a rope on his left foot. Once at the bottom he writes, "The ore appeared to be quite plenty although the mine had been worked a year we ascended again & got some fine specimens from one of the windlass hands. We then went to another digging found one man who said he had worked a year and had not raised mineral enough to pay for his tobacco" (p. 2-3). Trott also briefly discusses the life of a miner and provides a description of the country. "The country about here is more beautiful than that around Bos. [Boston] such beautiful succession of hills. You w'd be delighted with the views..." (p. 3). He concludes the letter with a story about an American or Canadian smuggling goods that were seized by a customs officer.
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[Harris & Hoyt?]. Account book
Manuscripts
This volume contains record of business transactions and also copy of a letter to "Amanda" (Hoyt?) from George H. Hoyt, February 19, 1867. It is in poor condition.
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Caroline Miskel Hoyt
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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor Caroline Miskel Hoyt.
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Diary of James Lovett Bunting [microform] : 1892-1898
Manuscripts
Microfilm of the diary of James L. Bunting, covering the years 1892-1898. The majority of the diary focuses on Bunting's daily life in and around Kanab, Utah, including church activities, visiting his children and grandchildren, teaching and attending Sunday school, and noting local news. He specifically describes going to Fredonia as a missionary with Taylor Crosby, attending the Democratic Convention at Orderville and the 1892 Presidential election (he writes that J.L. Rawlins' election to Congress was a "terrible damper" to Utah), a long account of the death of his wife Harriet Dye Bunting, including a brief biography of her (1893), attending the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple (1893), his brief genealogical mission to England (1893), going to St. George for jury duty (1894), and working in the St. George Temple (1897).
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