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[Four letters from Horace K. Whitney to Helen Mar Whitney were penned while he was on a journey with the church leadership to southern Utah. These letters coincide with a journal that he kept of the trip. (See Box 3, volume 19)]

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Helen Mar Whitney family papers represent a significant contribution to the study of early Latter-day Saints history, overland travel, Salt Lake City social history, and the development of the Arizona territory. The collection consists of over 100 letters dating from 1840 to 1900. Letters were penned from Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, the Mormon Trail, Salt Lake City, Mesa, Arizona, St. David, Arizona and other places. Diaries from family members chronicle the 1860s, 1880s, and 1890s. Due to...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Helen Mar Whitney family papers represent a significant contribution to the study of early Latter-day Saints history, overland travel, Salt Lake City social history, and the development of the Arizona territory. The collection consists of over 100 letters dating from 1840 to 1900. Letters were penned from Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, the Mormon Trail, Salt Lake City, Mesa, Arizona, St. David, Arizona and other places. Diaries from family members chronicle the 1860s, 1880s, and 1890s. Due to...

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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Helen Mar Whitney family papers represent a significant contribution to the study of early Latter-day Saints history, overland travel, Salt Lake City social history, and the development of the Arizona territory. The collection consists of over 100 letters dating from 1840 to 1900. Letters were penned from Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, the Mormon Trail, Salt Lake City, Mesa, Arizona, St. David, Arizona and other places. Diaries from family members chronicle the 1860s, 1880s, and 1890s. Due to...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Helen Mar Whitney family papers represent a significant contribution to the study of early Latter-day Saints history, overland travel, Salt Lake City social history, and the development of the Arizona territory. The collection consists of over 100 letters dating from 1840 to 1900. Letters were penned from Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, the Mormon Trail, Salt Lake City, Mesa, Arizona, St. David, Arizona and other places. Diaries from family members chronicle the 1860s, 1880s, and 1890s. Due to...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Helen Mar Whitney family papers represent a significant contribution to the study of early Latter-day Saints history, overland travel, Salt Lake City social history, and the development of the Arizona territory. The collection consists of over 100 letters dating from 1840 to 1900. Letters were penned from Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, the Mormon Trail, Salt Lake City, Mesa, Arizona, St. David, Arizona and other places. Diaries from family members chronicle the 1860s, 1880s, and 1890s. Due to...

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Three letters are addressed dear George, and are signed Hent. or H. These most likely were written by Helen Kimball Whitney to George Bourne. The April 1883 describes a train trip to Logan, where Helen went to see the temple during its construction.

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Three letters are addressed dear George, and are signed Hent. or H. These most likely were written by Helen Kimball Whitney to George Bourne. The April 1883 describes a train trip to Logan, where Helen went to see the temple during its construction.

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(This letter describes life at Winter quarters for Fanny, Vilate and Helen while the latter two husbands were with the pioneers. The bottom of one page contains a note in Helen Mar Whitney's hand to Mr. Tullidge commenting about the letter. This letter has been removed to Box 4.)