Scope and Contents Diary and commonplace book, 1841-1844, of an unidentified man, probably from the Hartford, Ct. area.  Most of the diary is taken up by summaries of about 70 sermons the author attended, interspersed with personal comments, while the last pages are filled with information on work done by author or others, mostly of agricultural nature. Most of the sermons were preached by Dr. Porter, who was probably Dr. Noah Porter, a minister of the Congregational Church in Farmington,...

Scope and Contents This collection contains 16 diaries kept by members of the Munger family from New Haven, Connecticut and Portland, Oregon. The collection contains information about the social, religious, cultural, and intellectual lives of late 19th- and early 20th-century women, the daily rhythms of their domestic lives and family relations. Twelve of the diaries were kept by Rosanna ("Rose" or Rosa") May Munger from 1886-1945, excluding years...