Handwritten diary, receipts, and a typewritten autobiography. Brown writes in his diary about his life in Hoytsville, Summit County, Utah. He writes about weather conditions, meetings of the Mormon Church, and business in Park City, Utah, where he hauled coal. Also included is an autobiography of Viola N. Zumbrunnen Mabey, Brown's daughter. Maybey writes of her life in Summit County, Utah.

Photomechanical reproduction of a handwritten manuscript. The item is a list of all stake officies in the Summit Stake of the Mormon Church as of 10 Aug. 1879. The manuscript includes the names of the office holders, time and place of their births, the names of their parents, when and where they were baptized into the Mormon Church for the first time and when and where they were rebaptized into that faith, and when and by whom these persons were ordained.