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Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 6568 Collections and/or Records:

Harrison Davis papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2023
Scope and Contents Professional papers documenting Davis' academic career at Brigham Young University. Diaries, research notes, photographs, reel-to-reel sound tapes, cassette tapes, maps, correspondence, and postcards. The collection relates to the teaching of humanities, geography, and anthropology. The items also deal with Harrison's studies in numerology; dowsing; "synchronicity"; "coincidence studies"; Mormon history and cities; Massachusetts; Cache Valley, Utah; Wales; and Rexburg, Idaho. The...
Dates: 1950-1996

William E. Davis diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 59
Scope and Contents

Holograph diaries kept by Davis during his service in the Civil War. Includes brief statments regarding drills, deaths, weather, and daily activities.

Dates: 1862-1865

Dawn Curtis collection of Sarah Oakey Sirrine manuscripts, 1851-1974

 Series
Identifier: MSS 8593 Series 3
Scope and Contents

Contains letters exchanged between members of Sarah Oakey Sirrine's family, both those that preceded her and those that followed. They were written primarily in Idaho and Arizona and date between 1851 and 1974.

Dates: 1851-1974

Alphonse B. Day diaries

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230234285]
Identifier: MSS SC 159
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries in pencil with a typescript of the items. Day writes about his activities and experiences while emigrating to California using wagons pulled by oxen.

Dates: 1859-1860

Alphonse B. Day diary

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 658
Scope and Contents

Handwritten account of Day's overland journey from the Missouri River to Oregon in 1849. Diary primarily focuses on travelling conditions: grass, water, and condition of horse and ox teams. A number of companions died from cholera and mountain fever. Day intended to travel to California, but "as I think its impossible to go to California with a team," headed to Oregon instead.

Dates: 1849

Day book of Dallas L. Hess, 1927-1929

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197239278671], Folder: 8
Identifier: MSS 9462 Item 6

Thomas Day collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2071
Abstract

The Thomas Day collection contains Day's journal (1843-1850), an account book (1843-1846), papers, and correspondence relating to his family, most all of which focuses on his LDS mission to England. He served in Lemington, Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Leicestershire.

Dates: 1841-1893

Daybook of Armstrong and Bagley (original), 1878-1903

 File — Box 1: Series 1 [Barcode: 31197233277570], Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 1511 Series 1 File 7
Scope and Contents

Contains the original hardbound daybook of Armstrong and Bagley, including the diary of Samuel Russell, Jr. (see folder 6 for more content details). 159 pages, dated 1878 to 1903.

Dates: 1878-1903

Daybooks and journal, 1907-1933

 File — Box 4: Series 2 [Barcode: 3119722543310], Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3775 Series 2 Sub-Series 1