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Box 7

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Daniel Smith Mills letter to Joshua K. Whitney, 1854 October 12

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 18
Identifier: Vault MSS 76 Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Item 1
Scope and Contents Letter from Mills, San Francisco, California, dated October 12, 1854, to Joshua K. Whitney regarding conditions among the gold miners in California where he was serving as a missionary for the Church. Includes discouraging news from home including the death of his mother, the destruction of the ship "Yankee Blade," and the looting of its baggage. On the inside of the folded letter is a print of an engraving entitled "Sunday in the California Diggings," published by the Wide West Office, San...
Dates: 1854 October 12
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 76, Newel Kimball Whitney papers / Whitney family papers / Whitney family correspondence and other material

Daniel Smith Mills letter to Joshua K. Whitney, 1854 October 31

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 18
Identifier: Vault MSS 76 Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Item 2
Scope and Contents

Letter from Mills, San Francisco, California, dated October 31, 1854, to Joshua K. Whitney regarding his condition and activities as a missionary. Describes John Young's arrival as a missionary in the Hawaiian Islands, and reports on the condition of John Tobin and others among the Indians, at Fort Lane, Oregon Territory.

Dates: 1854 October 31
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 76, Newel Kimball Whitney papers / Whitney family papers / Whitney family correspondence and other material

Daniel Smith Mills letter to Horace K. Whitney, 1855 February 27

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 18
Identifier: Vault MSS 76 Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Item 3
Scope and Contents

Letter by Mills, Mormon Island, California, dated February 27, 1855 to Whitney regarding his desire to receive news from Salt Lake City, conditions where he was residing as a missionary, and the California gold miners.

Dates: 1855 February 27
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 76, Newel Kimball Whitney papers / Whitney family papers / Whitney family correspondence and other material

Daniel Smith Mills letter to Mary Jane Whitney Groo, 1856 August

 Item — Box: 7, Folder: 18
Identifier: Vault MSS 76 Series 2 Sub-Series 4 Item 4
Scope and Contents

Letter from Mills, San Bernardino, California, dated August 1856, to Groo regarding her work as a teacher, his activities in California, and his grandfather Smith's determination to travel to the Salt Lake Valley. The front of the letter includes a print of an engraving of Mormon Island, California.

Dates: 1856 August
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 76, Newel Kimball Whitney papers / Whitney family papers / Whitney family correspondence and other material

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