Item Detail
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MSS 6188
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Anna Christina Smoot diary
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Smoot, Anna Christina
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1875-1876
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Anna Christina "Teenie" Smoot's original handwritten diary. There is also a 42-page typescript with a three page letter by a grandson, F. T. Letchfield, Jr. The letter explains Smoot's handwriting and personality, and gives a brief summary of her life. The journal discusses Smoot's social life, work, family, Utah's statehood and politics, and church life. Anna Christina Smoot was the fifth wife of Abraham Owen Smoot.