Typed historical data on the Talbot family. The item includes transcripts of correspondence, family histories, historical notes, reminiscences, genealogies, travel descriptions, and miscellaneous items. In particular, the collection describes various wars, uprisings, and social conditions in nineteenth century South Africa. The collection also includes a history of the Morrisites, the Morrisite War, and other information relating to Utah and Mormonism.

Contents include four typewritten transcriptions of Thomas Peek's history of South Weber, Davis County, Utah. Peek records the history of the establishment and hardships of the Latter-day Saint people in South Weber, including brief descriptions of the Morrisite War of 1862, the Utah War of 1857-1858, and the activities of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The history was written in approximately 1900.