Charles E. Aiken. Nine diaries. 1894-1932. Ms 0001, Box 2.

Charles E. Aiken (1850-1936) moved to Colorado in 1871. His interests included ornithology, paleontology, the history of the earth, evolution, heredity, and the breeding and training of dogs. His diaries cover the years 1894, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1930, 1931, and 1932.

William J. Baird. Diary. April 12, 1859 - May 18, 1859. Typed copy, 10 pages. Mf 0089.

William J. Baird traveled from Genesco, Illinois to Pikes Peak in 1859. His subjects include Fort Garland, a Mexican fandango, the cost of repairing a watch and powder flask, Pike's Peakers going back home, a train robbery, the price of a belt that holds a knife and revolver, the Irish, and a river boat cooking fire near the Mississippi River.

Ann Scholfield Fiske Banfield. Diary. 1894-1895. Ms 0241, Box 4, Folder 45.
Transcription available online.

Ann Scholfield Fiske Banfield was the sister of Helen Hunt Jackson, the wife of Everett Colby Banfield, and the mother of Helen Banfield Jackson (Helen Hunt Jackson's niece who later married her widower, William S. Jackson). She was born in 1834.

Edith Colby Banfield. Diary. 1900. Ms 0241, Box 7, Folder 83.
Transcription available online.

Edith Colby Banfield was the sister of Helen Banfield Jackson, Helen Hunt Jackson's niece. She was an author in her own right, publishing several articles in late-19th century periodicals. She moved to Colorado Springs and took care of Helen Banfield Jackson's six children after their mother died in 1899. This diary covers a short period early in her guardianship.

Everett Colby Banfield. Diary. 1846. Ms 0241, Box 5, Folder 55.
Transcription available online.

Everett Colby Banfield was the husband of Ann Scholfield Fiske Banfield, Helen Hunt Jackson's sister. This diary covers his first year at Harvard University.

W. Frank Bates. Two diaries. 1901, 1910. Ms 0406.

In the spring of 1910, W. Frank Bates traveled by wagon to Estes Park with his wife and son. He worked on the Cub Lake Trail and other trails in what would become Rocky Mountain National Park. The earlier diary, from 1901, covers his time in medical school in Iowa.

Cara Bell. A Journal of Cara Georgina Whitmore Bell: About Her Early Married Life in America. 1872-1876. Compiled by Archie and Mary Bell [her children]. Mimeograph, 31 leaves. Colorado Room F784 .M3 B45.

Cara Georgina Whitmore Scovell Bell was the wife of Dr. William A. Bell, a founder of Colorado Springs. Her journal mentions famous people and places in Colorado Springs, the state of Colorado, the United States, and England.

Benson. Two diaries. 1854. Ms 0130, Box 11, Folder 145.

These two short diaries are part of the Archer Butler Hulbert Papers. They may be hand-copies of an original held elsewhere.

Samuel Caldwell. Diary. 1878. Typescript with autograph annotations, 33 pages. Mf 0054.
Transcription of one letter, concerning Cheyenne Indians, available online.

Samuel Caldwell's diary is entitled "Ranching in Colorado Sixty Years Ago" and covers April-July, 1878. Caldwell has added a section called "My Diary Continued from Memory," dated 1938. With the typescript are several 1878 letters from Caldwell to his parents, mainly written from MacMillan's Ranch, River Bend, Colorado.

George Q. Cannon. Diary. 1888. Ms 0293, Box 1.
Transcription available online.

Mormon George Q. Cannon was a Counselor to Brigham Young. He wrote this diary in 1888 while imprisoned in a Utah penitentiary for polygamy.

Mary Chenoweth. Diary. 1988. Ms 0368, Box 7.
Transcription available online.

Mary Chenoweth taught art at Colorado College from 1953 to 1983. A prolific artist, she was proficient in many art media, including sculpture; woodcarving and woodcut; silkscreen; watercolor and oil painting; pen and ink drawings; etchings; collage; and her unique hand-made postcards.

Isaac Clarke. Memoir. 1892. Ms 0384.
Typed reconstruction of the text available here.

Isaac Clarke took part in the Pikes Peak Gold Rush and witnessed the Sand Creek Massacre. His memoir covers his life from birth in 1839 until 1892. He died in 1909. His son, Ray Allen Clarke, created a typed reconstruction of the memoir (not a word-for-word transcription) and added an explanatory postscript.

W.W. Cornell. Diary. 1897. Ms 0374.

W.W. Cornell notes daily events: the weather, visitors, activities, meetings, letters sent and received. He refers to jobs as a sign painter, a money collector, an undertaker's assistant, volunteer firefighter, and a drug-store employee, all in Aspen, Colorado.

Margaret C. Dickson. Diary. 1859-1862. Ms 0008, Folder 9.
Transcription available online.

Margaret C. Dickson kept this diary during her time at a school in Morgantown, Maryland run by a Mr. Moore.

Emily French. Diary. 1890. Ms 0057.
Transcription available in book form, at this library and elsewhere: Emily French. Emily, the Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman. Edited by Janet LeCompte. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987. 166 pages. Tutt 3rd floor and Special Collections Colorado Room, F781.F854 1987.

Emily French was born around 1843. In 1890, she was a middle-aged, divorced, working woman in Colorado. At the beginning of the year, she lived in Elbert; by the end, she had moved to Denver. She supported two children, traveling the eastern plains looking for housework or nursing jobs.

Subjects of the diary include chores, lice-ridden clothes and bedding, businesses, churches, parks, streets, meals, special events, illnesses of friends, funerals, childbirth, and books. French describes people she meets and works for, some of them opportunists, dishonest, selfish, kind, lazy, miserly, religious, gossipy, hardworking, alcoholic, abusive, delinquent, or poor.

Sarah Gibbes. Collection of Poems and Diary. 1775-1828. Ms 0206.
Partial transcription, with notes, available online.

A collection of more than 30 poems, many of them by Sarah Gibbes, most of these about death. Also included is genealogical information on the Gibbes family, in various hands. Most of the dated entries are from the early 1780s. Some family listings (marriages, births, etc.) are dated as early as 1760, but may have been written down later. The latest recorded date is 1828. With the diary are a few loose pages and clippings, and a 1794 list of the taxable property of Robert Gibbes.

Sarah Gibbes was born Sarah Reeve in 1746. Her parents were Dr. John Ambrose Reeve and Ann Barnwell. In 1764, she married Robert Gibbes, a wealthy South Carolina plantation owner. (He was also her step-brother: Ann Barnwell was married four times, and Robert was the son of her fourth husband, John Gibbes.) Robert Gibbes had previously been married to Ann Stanyarne, who died in 1763; Robert and Ann had a daughter, Mary Gibbes, who was born in 1758. Robert and Sarah lived in South Carolina and had ten children.

Mary Gibbes, step-daughter of Sarah Gibbes, died in 1775, age 17. It seems likely that this death motivated Sarah to start writing poetry, since the date of Mary's death is the earliest recorded date in the diary, and many of Sarah's poems are about that death.

Josephine Richards Gile. Thirty-three diaries. 1871-1918 and 1930-1936. Ms 0244.
Partial transcription available online.

Josephine Richards Gile was born in Newport, New Hampshire in 1855. She taught at Abbot Academy, New Hampshire, and in 1886 married Moses Clement Gile. They moved to Colorado Springs in 1892, where Moses Gile was a Professor of Greek and Latin at Colorado College and the Assistant Principal of Cutler Academy. They had five children together. Josephine Gile was active in the Women's Educational Society and the Colorado Woman's Missionary Society. She died in 1938.

Mary Ann LeBosquet Cragin Gillette. Diary. 1895-1907. Ms 0370, Box 2, Folder 6.
Partial transcription available in Special Collections.

Gillette, mother of CC Geology professor Frank Cragin, wrote the 1892 novel Billow Prairie (under the pseudonym Joy Allison) and was a contributor to The Congregationalist, the Christian Endeavor, and St. Nicholas Magazine.

Charles Greene. Diary. 1868. Ms 0130, Box 7, Folder 90.

This diary is part of the Archer Butler Hulbert Papers. It is labeled "Charles Greene, Brighton, Ohio, 1868." With it are some related account books, clippings, and correspondence.

Thomas Haskell. Twenty-six diaries. 1842-1884. Ms 0013, Box 13.

Thomas Haskell, clergyman, educator, and author, was born in New York State in 1826. In 1842, at the age of 16, he taught school in Warren, Ohio. He attended Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; Oberlin College; Union Theological Seminary; and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1873 he traveled to Colorado for the health of his daughter. There he helped found Colorado College, the first college in the Rocky Mountains. He died in 1906.

Edward Graham Hayes. Five diaries. 1886-1889. Ms 0015.
Transcriptions available in Special Collections.

Edward G. Hayes was a student at Colorado College from 1880 to 1881. In 1886, with Charles W. Codwise, he established the ZA Ranch in Granger, Colorado. These diaries - four of them personal, one of them financial - cover his cattle ranching years. Hayes left ranching in 1900 and became a banker in Canandaigua, New York.

Killingworth Hedges. Diary. Typescript copy, 20 pages. 1872. Mf 0124.
Typescript available online.

Typescript of a diary describing Killingworth Hedges's trip from Kansas to Colorado Springs in 1872. Includes descriptions of cattle trails, forts, houses, saloons, trains, windmills, prairie dogs, dead buffalo with their hides missing, and trains stopped by cattle stampedes. Also includes descriptions of Denver population, altitude, air, streets, hotels, hotel prices, Buckskin Jim, price of animal hides, Chinese laundry, foods, music halls, and gambling.

The Colorado Springs area subjects include General Cameron, Garden of the Gods, Glen Eyrie, Manitou Soda Springs, Ute Pass, Indian encampments, trading with Indians, Indians getting vaccinated, rifles, Cheyenne Canon, Fountain Creek, bears, price of land, Monument Creek, Templeton Gap, coal fields, brickfield, church meeting, lime kilns, Mr. and Mrs. Lilley, the Mellen family, Palmer's land, climbing Pikes Peak, ranches where he stayed in Canon City, the bridge across the Arkansas, the penitentiary, the Meaves family, Hardscrabble, Pueblo, hotels, Dr. Bell, stage stations, ranches, railroad crews, Salt Works, South Park mines, Twin Lakes, California Gulch, Fairplay, petrified stumps, halfway house, Jimmy camp, Oro City, Greeley, Hartsell Ranch, Littleton Ballard Rifle, and a seance in Denver where the editor of the Rocky Mountain News hid under a cabinet.

Hedges's Colorado Springs frame house was struck by lightning and burned in 1872.

With the diary typescript are a photograph of Hedges and a few letters, one concerning the diary's publication in a Colorado Springs newspaper. We don't know if the diary was ever actually published.

Rev. William Howbert. Diary. Typescript copy, 23 pages. 1860. Ms 0019, Box 4, Folder 85.
Transcription available online.

William Howbert was a Methodist-Episcopal minister. In 1860, he traveled with his 14-year-old son Irving (later a CC trustee) from Adams County, Iowa to Denver, Colorado. The diary covers April 10 - December 20, 1860.

Archer Butler Hulbert. Fifteen diaries. 1885-1920. Ms 0130, Box 25.

Archer Butler Hulbert was born in 1873 in Bennington, Vermont. During most of the time of the diaries, he was teaching in Marietta, Ohio. The diaries contain brief notes on events of the day, travel plans, golf dates, visitors, and so on. According to the 1920 diary, Hulbert received a phone call from President Duniway on May 5 offering him $2,700 to teach at CC. Four days later, Hulbert accepted. He taught in the History Department until 1933, and was also Director of the Stewart Commission of Western History from 1926 on.

Inmate #19200. Outline of My Life: from Success to Failure and Prison (a Self Analysis). [1937?] Handwritten copy, 7 pages. Mf 0400.
Transcription available in Special Collections.

Colorado State Penitentiary Inmate #19200, likely Glenn O. Leach, was a traveling salesman jailed for an unknown crime in 1937. While in prison in Canon City, he sold copies of this handwritten autobiography for 15 cents each. He writes that a youthful lack of discipline led him to a life of excess, and complains of having “malignant Thoughts, Habits and Desires.”

Helen Hunt Jackson. Eight diaries. 1852-1882. Ms 0020, Box 5.
Transcriptions available online.

Helen Hunt Jackson, American author and Indian rights activist, was born Helen Maria Fiske in 1830. She married Edward B. Hunt in 1852. They had two sons. The first, Murray, died as an infant in 1854. Edward B. Hunt died in 1863, and their second son, Warren ("Rennie"), died in 1865.

HHJ began publishing poems and travel essays in the late 1860s. Her first collection of poems, Verses, appeared in 1870. She came to Colorado in 1873 for health reasons, and married William S. Jackson of Colorado Springs in 1875. In the 1880s, she became an Indian Rights activist, and published an incendiary book on the topic, A Century of Dishonor. Her famous novel, Ramona, was published in 1884, the year before she died. It is still in print more than one hundred years later.

Colorado College owns the single-largest collection of Helen Hunt Jacksons's letters, diaries, photographs, and other materials. See our Helen Hunt Jackson page for more information.

Helen Banfield Jackson. Fifteen diaries. 1876-1899. Ms 0241, Box 13.
Some transcriptions available online.

Helen Banfield Jackson was the niece of Helen Hunt Jackson, American author and Indian rights activist. She graduated from Vassar College in 1879 and inherited HHJ's estate in 1885. In 1888, she married William S. Jackson, HHJ's widower. They lived in Colorado Springs and had seven children. In 1899, about a year after the death of her infant daughter Margaret, she committed suicide.

Roland Jackson. Two diaries, in Spanish. 1917. Ms 0241, Box 11, Items 122-123.
Handwritten translations available in Special Collections.

Roland Jackson, born 1893, was the son of William S. Jackson and Helen Banfield Jackson. He wrote these diaries in Spanish during his 1917 World War I tour in Spain. He was killed in action in France on June 6, 1918 while serving as 2nd Lieutenant, Company G, 30th U.S. Infantry.

[Jesuit Priests.] Diary of the Jesuit Residence of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Conejos, Colorado. December 1871 - December 1875. In Spanish. Photocopy. Ms 0076.
Translation available in book form, at this library and elsewhere: Diary of the Jesuit Residence of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish. Edited and annotated by Marianne L. Stoller and Thomas J. Steele; translated by José B. Fernández. Colorado Springs: Colorado College, 1982. Tutt 3rd floor, Reference, and Special Collections Colorado Room, LD1131.8.S76 no. 19.

Photocopy of a diary kept by the Jesuit priests at the oldest parish in Colorado. In Spanish.

Lillian Hart Kerr. Diary. 1883. Ms 366, Box 31.
Transcription available in Special Collections.

Lillian Hart, later Lillian Hart Kerr, kept this diary during her time at North Texas Female College. In 1902, she founded the Woman's Club of Colorado Springs.

Susie LeBosquet. Two diaries. 1876 and 1897-1908. Ms 0370, Box 2, Folder 5.

Susie LeBosquet was the sister of Mary Ann LeBosquet Cragin Gillette, mother of Frank Cragin.

Lennox Family Diary. 1872. Ms 0277.
Transcription available in Special Collections.

John Lennox wrote this diary about the Lennox Family and their work on Glenwood Ranch in Pine Valley, Colorado (now the grounds of the Air Force Academy).

Meyer Levi. Diary. 1883. Mf 0378.
Typed translation available in Special Collections.

Shipboard diary of Meyer Levy (later "Martin Lewis"), Jewish emigré to U.S., age 23 (?). In German and Danish.

Sobrina Martin. Diary. [1852?]. Mf 0063.
Transcription available online.

This is not a personal diary, but a collection of three short essays (Thoughts on Absent Friends, On Virtue, and On the Death of a Young Lady) and two poems (My Mother and To Him Who Will Apply Them). The diary's cover has a printed date of 1837, but Martin may have written the essays and poems in 1852.

This diary was a gift of Elizabeth McFadden, who also gave the library the diary of Sophronia Helen Stone (Ms 0042), which describes an overland journey across the United States in 1852. Martin is believed to have taken part in that same journey.

Charles Christopher Mierow. Thirteen diaries. 1919-1961. Ms 0154, Box 2.
Transcription of the 1919-1923 diary available online.

Charles Mierow was a Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at Colorado College. He served as the fifth president of the College from 1925 to 1934. His 1919-1923 diary consists mainly of brief descriptions of each day's activities.

H.D.L. Morse. Diary. 1861. Typed copy, 10 pages. Mf 0172.

Typescript of a diary about a trip from Wisconsin to Colorado by ox team in 1861. The actual diary is in the possession of Mrs. Irene L Benedict, Illinois Ave., Fountain.

H.D.L. Morse writes of killing blue racers, soldiers preparing for the Civil War, playing poker, Pawnee Indians, Indian camps, Fremont's Slough, O'Fallon's Bluffs, California Crossing, hogs bound for Denver, a child's death, Fremont's Orchard, Fort St. Vrain, patching his pants with antelope skin, the birth of Irene Benedict in a covered wagon, his neighbor Melvina and her death, winter activities, playing ball, picking corn, threshing buckwheat, oats, wheat and barley, hunting, butchering a hog, putting in a ditch, and taking a "nice gal" to a Christmas ball. Morse uses idiomatic expressions - "it rained liked 60" or "wind blew like 2 hells." He does not generally give details about places or incidents.

Jane M. Roberts. Diary. June-September 1937. Ms 0407.

Handwritten travel diary of a female college student on a road trip in the American West, visiting tourist attractions in Colorado (4 M Ranch, Cliff Dwellings, more) and Utah (Beef Basin, Fable Valley, more).

Rene Salie. Diary of a Canon City Woman. 1925-1929. Ms 0381.
Transcription available online.

Five Year Diary of a Canon City resident, including details of her life and times and laid-in ephemera. Mentions Charles Lindbergh's flight and the Colorado State Penitentiary riot of 1929. Each page has space for five years of short entries for a particular calendar day.


Charles Sargent. Diary: Overland Journey from Belleville, Illinois to Dear Creek, California. May 5, 1849 to September 20, 1849. Typed copy, 25 pages. Mf 0148.
Searchable PDF available online.

Charles Sargent was born in New York, where he was a jeweler's apprentice. When he finished his apprenticeship, he and his wife traveled from New York to Belleville, Illinois by wagon train. He established a small jewelry shop in Belleville shortly after his arrival.

The diary covers a trip from Illinois to California. In it, Sargent mentions noteworthy landmarks along the trail, cattle stampedes, buffalo, and measurements of the Platte and Indian villages. On his return trip, Sargent went by way of Panama. The diary describes a boat trip with sights including a humpback whale, a volcano, quantities of kelp, and fishing. Sargent describes San Francisco in passing and San Diego in detail (buildings, land, people, mining).

The diary includes charts showing supply costs, money earned, and weather. It also includes recipes.

Edward Seymour. The Diary of Edward Seymour: The Trip from Ohio to Denver in 1861. Typed copy. Mf 0268.

Seymour's diary begins March 18, 1861. It describes his trip from Ashtabula, Ohio to California Gulch (later known as Leadville, Colorado), where he stayed for the summer of 1861. He returned to Ohio the following November. In May of 1863, he visited Colorado again, this time with his wife and two children. Their transport was a wagon made of light lumber with a door at the end and a small window on each side, pulled by two yoke of oxen and a cow. The children slept crosswise in the wagon, their parents lengthwise. It took the family about eight weeks to reach Denver and another week to get to California Gulch.

Seymour writes of sleeping on bar room floors, in hay stacks, and under pine trees. He traveled through Cottonwood Springs, Julesburg, Little Blue River, and Fort Kearny, staying at ranches, going through express stations and toll gates, and trading with Indians. Seymour mentions the great suffering in Kansas caused by loss of cattle, but in general, he does not go into great detail about the trip.

After Seymour's death in 1865, his wife and children made the trip across the plains - known as the "Great American Desert" - several times.

W. Edgar Simonds. Civil War Diary. Nov. 14, 1862-Oct. 26, 1863. Ms 0087.
Transcription available online.

At the age of 21, Lt. W. Edgar Simonds was a Union soldier in the Civil War. He traveled on an ocean steamer from Staten Island down the east coast to the Gulf of Mexico. He also went up the Mississippi. For most of the War, he was camped near Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Before the War, he had been a school teacher.

Diary subjects include Simonds's sweetheart, packages from home, grave inscriptions, experiences on board ship, the ship's military weapons, lighthouses, and ports. Simonds describes the towns along the long marches, bathing in a mud puddle, sleeping on the graves of a former battlefield, a military funeral, men killed, wounded, or taken ill. At one point, he notes that a man died from the effects of masturbation. He also gives a detailed account of the Battle of St. Mary's. He was fascinated with the plantations he saw, and describes the furnishings inside, the grounds, and the slaves. Simonds lists name and rank of promoted men. He also writes of being wounded in action, of the hospitals he stayed in, and the care he received. At the back of the diary is an account book with prices for everything from candles to dancing school. In July of 1863, Simonds was sent home on account of his wound. That September he enrolled in law school.

Mary Snow Sinton. Two diaries. 1878-1900. Ms 0077, Box 2, Items 3-4.
Summaries and transcriptions available online.

Mary Snow Sinton was 23 in 1880 when she married George Sinton, co-founder of the Sinton Dairy in Colorado Springs. In her diaries, she describes everyday chores, family life, shopping in Colorado Springs, schools, churches (including the South Congregational Church of which Manly D. Ormes was pastor), excursions (including a trip on the Pikes Peak cog railway and a picnic at Green Mountain Falls), and cross-country trips (including the World's Fair in New York in 1873 and a trip to California in 1894). She speaks of an Indian Mission established in 1769, with stories about some of the Indians who settled the area.

Three of Mary Snow Sinton's children died. The diary contains a description of the death and funeral of her 13 year-old daughter, Jessie, whose medical treatments had included soda water from Manitou Springs and electrical shocks.

Lulu Bell Sinton. Diary. 1924-1947. Ms 0077, Box 2, Item 6.
Transcription available online.

Lulu Bell was 19 years old when she married Dr. William Sinton, a dentist and widower with two children, on September 5, 1885. They lived in Colorado Springs and had two children of their own. LBS was a founder of the All Souls Unitarian Church in Colorado Springs and was president of the El Paso Woman Suffrage League in 1893.

LBS began this diary in 1924, one month after Dr. William Sinton's death, on what would have been their 39th wedding anniversary. Later entries celebrate other anniversaries. LBS describes their courtship in the Garden of the Gods and gives a detailed account of their wedding in 1885. She also writes about friends, family, and World War II.

Hazel M. Stewart. Diary. 1938-1942. Ms 0419.
Transcription in process, 2022.

During the period of this Five Year Diary, Hazel M. Stewart lives near Brush, Colorado (northeast of Denver). She goes to school, attends Mass, spends time with friends and dates, and works at the Sunnyside Diner. Each page has space for five years of short entries for a particular calendar day.

Sophronia Helen Stone. Diary. 1852. Ms 0042.
Transcription available online.

Stone describes the foods she ate on her journey, cooking practices (using buffalo chips for fuel), illnesses such as cholera, measles, and mountain fever, medicines, food prices, sleeping on floors, crossing rivers by ferry and getting stuck in sloughs, campfires, camp meetings, a grocery store along the trail, Mormons, bad road conditions, a child's funeral, quicksand, saleratus ponds, beaver dams, tombstone inscriptions, bible meetings, a family's murder, prairie justice, drownings, encounters with Indians, Indian burial mounds and Ranger escorts through dangerous Indian country.

Dorothy Stroup. Two autograph books (1936-1940) and twelve diaries (1943-2000). Ms 0401, Box 1.
Transcription of the 2000 diary available online.

Dorothy A. Stroup (Colorado College class of 1949) was the author of In the Autumn Wind: a Novel (1987). The autograph books include rhymes from friends (“The higher the mountains / The cooler the breeze / The younger the couple / The tighter the squeeze”). In her diaries, Stroup writes about traveling the world.

Edward Royal Warren. Fourteen diaries. 1899-1904. Ms 0051, Boxes 1-2 and Ms 0289.
Transcription of one field notebook available online.

Edward Royal Warren was a naturalist and Curator of the Colorado College Museum. Thirteen of these diaries (Ms 0051) are Colorado area field notebooks. The fourteenth diary (Ms 0289) covers a trip to California in 1904.

Philip Moen Washburn. Five diaries. 1892-1896. Ms 0044, Box 8.

Rev. Philip Washburn was an Episcopal minister. He served as a trustee of Colorado College from 1894 until his death in 1898. During the time these diaries cover, the Washburns lived in Northampton, Saranac Lake, Colorado Springs, and Denver. The diaries give brief daily entries on the weather, the family's activities, books read, visitors, and the like. In 1892 Miriam Washburn gave birth to a daughter Eleanor, and Philip contracted tuberculosis. In 1895 another daughter, Margaret, was born; she died the following year. Philip died in 1898.