Cover made out of enough newspaper to seem as thick as thin cardboard, labeled in purple ink "Book 11th." Thin paper, lined faintly in blue. Numbered in the upper corners in pencil. Written in faded black ink, looks brown in places. Pages 1, 2, 29, 96 and 87 blank. A section of pages located between pages numbered 86 and 87 has been removed. There were 22 pages in this section. The binding of the book consists of pages sewn together with coarse black thread. The pages are no longer attached to the outside cover of the journal.

Diary written by Huntington between April 1849 and September 1856. Includes reference to Joseph Smith p14, 18, 67, Independence Rock p16, miraculous healing of O. B. Huntington p17, Ft. Laramie p17, Missouri River p18, Nauvoo p18, Michigan p18, Buffalo New York p18, Orson Hyde p19, Niagara Falls p22, Cincinnati Ohio p25, overland journey with family this time p27, separation from wife p34, marriage to Hannah M. Sanders p35, Heber C. Kimball p35, Antelope Springs p39, Carson Valley Nevada p41, Deseret News p56, Crimean War p59, Springville, Utah p61, Zina Huntington/wife of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young p68, Presendia Huntington/wife of Joseph Smith and Heber C. Kimball p69, mission to the Indians p70, Payson and Manti Utah p73, Spanish Fork p82, Deseret alphabet p88.

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