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Kimball, Jennie T. Diary of a trip to California, 1876-1877.

Title: Diary of a trip to California, 1876-1877.

Holograph manuscript account of a trip by train from Boston to California and back. Written in diary form and completed some nine months after her return to the East, Kimball's narrative describes her trip, from her departure from Boston in March 1876 to her return in May of that year. She writes of the countryside, the trains in which she travels, hotels and restaurants visited, and sightseeing in California, including a visit to Woodward's Gardens and a trip on horseback through the Yosemite Valley. Eight pages of religious poetry and notes follow the travel narrative. Accompanied by five newspaper clippings.

ArchivalResource: 113 p. ; 22 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702137399 View

Frontier women microfilm set, 1849-1913, [microform].

Title: Frontier women microfilm set, 1849-1913, [microform].

Women's diaries, correspondence, and related papers. Written by women who were early settlers in California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Includes accounts of the westward journey and of life on the frontier.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702139815 View

Frontier women microfilm set, 1849-1913, [microform].

Title: Frontier women microfilm set, 1849-1913, [microform].

Women's diaries, correspondence, and related papers. Written by women who were early settlers in California, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Includes accounts of the westward journey and of life on the frontier. Includes: Mary Burrell's Book (WA MSS 58), Julia R. Collins Letters (WA MSS S-1268), Sarah Green Davis: Diary of an Overland Journey to California (WA MSS S-1320 D298), Lucy H. Fosdick: Across the Plains in '61 (WA MSS S-1410 F786), Celinda E. Hines: Overland Journey (WA MSS 424), Maria R. Hodgdon: Journal of a Voyage from Boston to San Francisco (WA MSS S-1425), Jennie T. Kimball: Diary of a Trip to California (WA MSS S-1683), Almira Markell Papers (WA MSS S-1660), Martha Missouri Bishop Moore: Journal of a Trip to California (WA MSS S-1438), Mary Rockwood Powers: The Overland Route, Leaves from the Journal of a California Emigrant (WA MSS 387), Louisa Cook Walters Papers (WA MSS S-1656), and Lillie I. Wells: My Journey to California (WA MSS S-1669 W4621).

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122449524 View