Abstract Typescript copy (154 p.) of Luman H. Tenney's diary and family letters, from 1860-1880. They touch on various subjects including religion, child rearing, Mormanism, the Chicago Fire of 1871, travel, business, Temperance, politics, hunting, recreation, and daily life. Luman Tenney was instrumental in the settlement of Glyndon, Minnesota and the land surrounding it through his Northern Pacific connections.

Abstract Copies of correspondence from Gamble and her children to her parents, the William Neills, in Beaverton, Ont., concerning family matters and frontier life in Kittson County, Minn.