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Diaries
Listing of diaries in the collection of the Searls Historical Library in Nevada City. Actual diaries can only be viewed in person. They are identified by the “SearlsLoc” shown in the last column. (This list was compiled by Marilou West Ficklin in 2009.)
Also available as a PDF file.
| Name | Content | Format | DateStart | DateEnd | Origin | Destination | Gender | Ethnicity | SearlsLoc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander, Mahala Belle/ Hardy | Memoir | Hardy 1849 | Hardy 1852 | Joliet, IL | California | Male 49er/ female narrator | Hardy: Derbyshire, Eng | File 0 1A | |
| Anonymous | Unidentified notes | Original handwritten | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Unknown | Ph7 -2 |
| Anonymous | Unidentified | Original handwritten | -- | -- | Henness Pass Road | -- | -- | Unknown | Ph 7 -? |
| Anonymous | Calendar Diary: Ditch Tender | Original handwritten | 1904 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Ph 4 -4 |
| Boardman, Cecilia Purdy | Memoir of Journey | Transcript of published memoir | 1852 | -- | Galena, IL | Rich Bar (Butte Co.)/Grass Valley | Female | Unknown | File 0 1B |
| Bradbury, John | Voyage Diary | Original handwritten diary; memoir | 12/5/1856 | 12/29/1857 | New York | San Francisco; Downieville | Male | Unknown | PH 7-12 |
| Breen, Patrick | Overland Diary | Reprint of 1910 published article | 1846 | 1847 | [Donner Party] | Johnson's Ranch | Male | Irish | Ph7 -7 |
| Brierly, Minnie Pearls Helwig | Memoir, biography of Helwig & Bishop | 1850 | N. Bloomfield | Female | German | Ph 7-8 | |||
| Browne, W.P. | Voyageand Miner's Diary | Original and transcript | 5/31/1853 | -- | Huntingdon, PA | Grass Valley | Male | Irish | PH 9-3 |
| Coad, John | Voyage: Letters/Biography | -- | 1858 | 1860 | Wisconsin | Grass Valley | Male | Cornish | Box 112 C |
| Davis, Sarah | Overland Diary | Transcript | 5/21/1850 | 10/19/1850 | Missouri | California | Female | Unknown | File 0 - 1D |
| Davis, Sarah | Overland Diary | Transcript | 1850 | -- | Unknown | "Sierra Nevada City" | Female | Unknown | File 0 1-D |
| Davis, George Grove | Overland Memoir | Transcript | 1860 | -- | Piqua, Ohio | Sweetland | Male | Unknown | Box 12 D |
| D'Ancona, David A. | 'Travel Diary' | Published | 1876 | -- | Sacramento | Grass Valley | Male | Unknown | Box 12 D |
| Dickson, Joseph More | Journals | Original hand-written | 1867 | 1902 | Tennessee | Grass Valley, North San Juan, Sebastopol | Male | Unknown | Box 143 |
| Dickson, Joseph More | Misc. Journal | Original handwritten | 8/2/1873 | Dec 1873 | Unknown | Sebastapol | Male | Unknown | Ph7-11 |
| Elder, William | Letters | Original | 1851 | -- | -- | -- | Male | Unknown | Box 18 L-E |
| Elwell, Dr. Ellis & bro. Wm. | Letters | -- | 4/26/1853 | 1854 | __ | __ | Male | Unknown | Box 12 E |
| Francis, Grace Roberts | Letters/biography | Transcript | 1851 | -- | Galena, IL | Nevada City | Female | Cornish | Box 10 - E |
| Griffen, Allan | Letters | Photocopies of transcripts | 1857 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Box 36-G |
| Markle, John A. | Overland Diary | Transcript | 8/20/1849 | Unknown | Truckee | Sutter's Fort | Male | unknown | Box 12 E-Emigrant Trail |
| Rodney, Martin | Letters | Transcript | 1852 | -- | -- | -- | Male | Unknown | Box L-R |
| Rosendale, Charles D. | Miner Diary | Original handwritten diary | -- | -- | -- | French Corral | Male | Unknown | Ph 7-4 | Simpson, G.B. | Letters | Transcript | April 1849 | -- | Lynn Co. MO | Deer Creek, Nevada County | Male | Unknown | Ph 17-2 |
| Ward, G? | Overland Diary | Original handwritten Diary | 5/11/1852 | -- | Kanesville, IA | Hangtown (Placerville), CA | -- | Unknown | Ph7-1 |
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