Memoranda

Letters Received Jan. 2. 1892

Mell from, Wallace (daughter)

A. L. [Alvira Lucy Coolidge] Cox, Manti (<Book> business)

Julia Betty¹ [Julia Ann Wright Petty], Richmond (<Ex.> business)

A. K. [Annie Katrine Jensen] Bartlett Vernal (<Ex.> business)

Pauline Hall West Portage (copy)

Letter to President T. [Thomas] E. Ricks

Rexburg [Idaho] Aug. 6. 1892.

Sep. 6. 92 Murray [Idaho]

Barry N. Hillard gave me 25.00 towards steel engraving

W. W. Woods Wallace 25.00 Sep. 8, 1892 for steel engraving

Sent for Greek Philosophy

to Chicago. 1.25 Nov. 13. 1892

To The Cycle [Nov. 13. 1892]²

New York City [p. 367] {p. 305}

Letter from Verona Jan. 15. |92

[Letter from]³ Mell. Jan. 16. 92–

Mell Feb. [1892]

Verona 20. [1892] in June–

Wrote to Dr. [Rosetta Luce] Gilchrist, Ohio

Minna V. Lewis San Fran.

Alice C. Waterman [San Fran.]⁴

Eliza D. Keith [San Fran.]

Verona [San Fran.]

sent Daisie Birthday present

tea spoon angel Moroni

Cor. Sec. W.N.P.A.⁵ Mrs. M. [Martha] D.

Lincoln Washington D.C.

Clara B. Colby [Washington D.C.]

Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston

H. R. Shattuck [Boston]

Mell, Wallace Idaho

Letters written in July

Nellie B. Eyster San Francisco

Florence Percy Matheson [San Francisco]

Minna V. Lewis [San Francisco]

Geo. T. Gaden [San Francisco]

Mrs. J. M. Flower Chicago

Clara B. Colby Washington [p. 368] {p. 306}

Wrote Letters to Mell

J. H. Bennett D. & R.G.

R. W. [Ruth Welton] Tyler—Beaver

Annie

Sent New Year’s, Cards to

Mary [Mitchell] Pitchforth, Nephi

L. L. Daton [Lucinda Lee Dalton], Payson

Emma Kofod, Levan

M. A. Greenhalgh, Meadow

Verona & Daisie [Dunford], Idaho

Maria M. Johnson, Circleville

Minnie Christenson, Farmington

Minerva W. [White] Snow Manti

Sarah [Ann Nelson] Peterson Ephraim

Rebecca [Coolidge] Wareham Manti

Sarah E. Russell Mexico

Geneva Clark Thorndike [Hampden, Massachusetts] [p. 369] {p. 307}

cash account. january.

date.		received.	paid.
1	Q. M. & D. [George Q., Margaret, Daniel Cannon]			.40
2	Ticket D. & R.G. [Denver & Rio Grande Railway]		1.	50
"	Bus		.	25
	Gurney		.	25
	Flowers Talula		1.	75
	[Flowers]⁶ Whitney Hall		.	75
	Book A Rose of a Hundred <Leaves>		1.	50
	Paper Envelopes & stamps		2.	00
	ink pens & pencils		1	00
	Purse Russian Leather
26	Sep.		4.	50
4	Q’s birthday spoon		1.	50
24	Baby’s [birthday spoon]⁷		1.	50
	Eleanor
	Box Wax candles		1	25
	Handkerchief		.	50
	Sundries		1	50
	Review of Reviews⁸			20

[p. 370] {p. 308}

cash account. february.

date.		received.	paid.
	The Writer Boston⁹		1.	00
	Ladies Home Journal		1.	00
	Sundries for house		3.	00
	Current History		1.	00
	Cushings Manual¹⁰ 4 copies		1.	00
	paper, pens, envelopes		.	65
	corn plaster			15
	bread cakes crackers			50
	Candles		1	25
	Sugar		.	25
	sundries		1.	35
	ham eggs cheese etc.		.	95
	Sundries		1	50
24	Breakfast at Provo			95
	Bus & Carriage			50
	Gurney &			50
	paper & pencils			80
	Review of Reviews			25
	Columbian Exposition		2	00
	Ring for Emma		1	50

[p. 372] {p. 309}

cash account. march.

date.		received.	[paid.]¹¹
	Railroad fare		2	25
	[Railroad fare]¹²		1	50
	wood		1.	00
	stamps		4	00
	[stamps]¹³		1.	75
	spoon for Sarah & ring for baby		1.	75
	candles		1.	25
	soap		.	65
	paper etc		1.	00
	stamps		2	.00
	Daniel Squire
	mug & bowl			30
	Box of paper		.	25
	Sundries for cake		1.	00
	wood		1	.00
	eggs & alcohol			80
	fruit & sugar
	Sapolin¹⁴ & whiting		1.	70
	bread 5 butter 40 cheese 5			50
	salmon 20 bread 5			25
	milk 5			5
	candles		1.	25

[p. 374] {p. 310}

cash account. april.

date.		received.		[paid.]
	Higher Education of Woman			1.	00
2	Railway ticket			1	50
3	Gurney				25
2	Bananas				40
	Bread cheese & crackers				25
4	Gurney				25
	Meat & bread				30
	Milk				15
	Sardines, eggs tea				60
	bread milk crackers				35
	¹⁵5 street car 20				25
	lamp chimney <& draft>				30
	Sent Mrs. Avery draft for books	50.	00	& .	10
	Salmon & bread				25
5¹⁶	Dressmaker			20.	40
	Wood 1.00 coal 6.25			7.	25
	Banannas 40 eggs 20				60
	[Banannas]¹⁷ 40 wood 1.00			1.	40
	coal			6	25
	Journalist N.Y.			1	.00
	Woman Question in Europe			3.	00
	Book of Mormon			2	.50
	Florence Balgamie [Balgarnie]

[p. 376] {p. 311}

cash account. april.

date.		received.	[paid.]
14	bread & cheese & <& milk>		.	60
	milk			25
	stockings 50 Book 45
16	. for Elise		.	95
	Oranges. 40 crackers 20		.	60
	sweet pickles 10
	chocolate 25 sugar 25, alcohol 75		1.	35
	stamp & newspaper wrappers		2.	30
	Basket of flowers Miss Balgarnie		3.	50
30	Fruit & cakes etc		1.	55
	milk bread & meat		.	30
	Lemons & sundris		.	40
	Wood		.	50
	Tickets to Ogden twice		4.	50
	Gurney 5 times		1.	25
	[Gurney]¹⁸ once		.	50
	mending ring		1.	50
	Tea		.	40
	Box of candles		1.	25
	lamp chimney			15
	Mail–		.	40
	¹⁹<Dress maker Mrs. White		4.	00
	materials		3.	00>

[p. 377] {p. 312}

cash account. may.

date.		received.	[paid.]
1	Temple Donation		1.	00
2	Sundries House			35
"	Mailing		2.	00
"	Songs of Sappho		1.	00
"	Woman’s Tribune		1.	00
3	Review of Reviews		.	50
"	Sundries Bread			65
"	Veiling			40
"	tea 40, meat 30.			70
"	paid for stamps		2	00
"	Birthday gift			25 B.W.S.²⁰
"	Street car fare			25
4	caskes & cheese			10
"	Sundies Oranges etc.			25
5	Reeding’s Bill²¹		4.	50
6	Sundries 10 sugar 25		.	35
"	paid Em. 70 Elise 50		1	20
	Street car fare		1.	90
	Shoes		7	.00
	baby’s spoon		1	.75
	Bonnet		4	.50
	baby’s ring			75
	special stamps			20

[p. 378] {p. 313}

cash account. may.

date.		received.	[paid.]
	Dress maker green skirt		2	.00
	braid etc			50
	Shells presents		5.	00
18	Ticket to San Francisco		35	.00
19	Berth going		6	00
	Meals		1.	50
	Books Barry & Verona		5	00
	Verona		1.	25
	John Q.		1.	00
31.	Berth return		6	.00
	Meal		1	.00
	Lunch at the Palace		.	50
	To C. F. Wells who had his arm shot boat Ukiah²²			25
	Porter going & coming		1.	00

[p. 379] {p. 314}

cash account. june.

date.		received.	[paid.]
1	Breakfast		1	.00
"	Porter		.	50
"	Lunch		’	35
"	Supper		1.	00
2	Gurney to & from <depot>		.	50
"	Car fare & express		.	55
"	bread butter & eggs		.	45
1"	Dot for work		10	.00
	candy banannas		.	30
	crackers & lemons			15
5	R.R. & Gurney		2.	10
3	Alcohol			40
4	bread, cheese, cakes			25
4	paper oranges meat			55
"	Eugene carrying <mail>			10
"	Postage		2	.10
"	Stamps			05
"	Lucile for folding		1.	50
"	Milk etc			10
"	bread, eggs, lamp <chimney>			35
"	Penknife			25
"	car fare etc			30
8	coal oil		1.	25
	bread & oranges & <car fare>			35
	Woman’s column²³			75
	²⁴<Errand boy			10.
	Charity			10.
	meat			35.
	cakes			90
	Cherries			50
	Sundries			30
	Lemons		.	40
	Knife			25.
	gurney for four		1.	00
	Em. for mailing		1	50
	Man carrying mail		5.	0
	Dress goods		12.	50
	Record Book		3.	00
	Eugene carrying mail			\|20
	Expense Miss Belgarnie–		3.	00>

[p. 380] {p. 315}

cash account. june.

date.		received.	paid.
	eggs bread sundries		2	45
	ticket to Grantsville		1.	35
	car fare Brigham City			10
	supper and Sundries			85
	tea 25 bread 5 meat 15 eggs 20			65
	coal bill		3.	50
	Lucile for mailing		1.	50
	Eugene carrying mail		.	40
	Bread, sundries, Sundries			45
	postage stamps one cent		1.	75
	street car fare			10
	Cosmopolitan 25, (ball 10 & book 20 for Brent,) strawberries 45. sundries 10.		1.	10
	An African Farm		.	25
	Meat		.	25
	eggs & car fare			20
	mitts vail ribbon		2.	20
	Gurney twice		.	50
	Strawberries			25
	Stationery		13.	00
	meat 25. oranges 20 lemons 20			45
	bananas 25 crackers 15 cheese 15 eggs 20			75
	bread 15 strawberries .45 carfare 20		.	80
	Hair dressing 50 Relief Society .25		.	75
	²⁵<paid Susan jewelry		3.	0.0
	Business Woman’s Journal²⁶			50
	Record Book		3.	00
	Wood		1.	00>

[p. 381] {p. 316}

cash account. july.

date.		received.	[paid.]
1	Dress goods		12.	50
	Calder’s Park			25
	meat bread			20
	Butter			30
	Postage		2	.00
2	Em keeping office		1.	50
	fruit bread etc			75
	tea 20 sugar 50			70
	D. D. [Daisie Dunford] spoon		2.	50
	Lemons 10 car fare 15		.	35
	stamp letters		2.	15
	postal cards		.	25
	tulle for neck			25
	Eugene mailing			10
	eggs 15 Relief Society²⁷ 25			40
	wood 1.00 flag 10		1.	10
	lace 1.10 grape water for hair 1.00		2	.10
	tea 40, sugar 50, fruit 40		1.	30
	Hair dressing 50 magazine 25			75
	ride to Howard’s		.	50
	berries 45, eggs 25, meat 15,			85
	book 40 bread 10 sardines 25			75
	sundries 50 butter 30 pickles 10			90
	berries 30 & lemons 10–			40
	carriage bill		1.	50
	²⁸<white dress Emma		4.	00
	Sweetie>		’	80

[p. 382] {p. 317}

cash account. july.

date.		received.	[paid.]
	bread 5, milk, 10 tea 10			25
	bread, 5 crackers 5, berries 10			20
	lemons 10, meat 15			25
	Eugene 25. Etta 5			30
	for repairing stove <& for grate>		1.	75
	lem[on]s 10 bread 5, ham 10			25
	soap 25 soda water 15		.	40
2.	breakfast 50 eggs 25			75
	butter 35. tea 20 crackers 10			65
	lunch 25 mail carrying .50			75
	paid Emma for work			1.50
	tacks 10, raspberries 20 ink 10			40
	blue ink 10 paper 25			35
	milk 10 soda 10 bread 10			30
	lemons 10 ticket to		1	80 W.S.A. American Fork
	Spring for cleaning		1.	00
	George Q. belt		.	50
	bread 5 meat 15		.	20
	car fare 45 carrying		.	45
	mail 50. Lucile 25		.	75
	taking garden seat <to Belle’s>		.	50
	Receipt Books			50
	Fare to Annie		1.	00
	Gurney		.	25
	silk mitts			50

[p. 383] {p. 318}

cash account. august.

date.		received.	[paid.]
1.	Ticket & Gurney		1.	25
"	Bread 5 ice 1.50		1.	55
2	butter 35 Eugene 10			45
"	steak .10 wood 1.00		1.	10
	Soda water		.	25
3	Lawndale [linen fabric] thread <& tape>		1.	60
"	bread, ham, buns		.	20
	wood 1.00 sundries 50		1.	50
6	Fare to the lake & lunch		1.	00
	Tulle 25 fruit 50			75
	bread & cakes			30
	lonsdale 25 milk 5
	tea 20
	Medicines		1.	75
	eggs 10 bread 10 pickles 10			30
	Dr. Pratt Book		1.	35
10	frut etc pic nic		2.	00
	meat 10 bread 5 eggs 15			30
11	Hair dressing etc.			50
12	[Hair dressing etc.]²⁹			35
	Tulle 25, Bread 5.		.	30
	Lemons 20 car fare 20		.	40
	Review of Reviews		.	25
	soda water <.5>

[p. 384] {p. 319}

cash account. august.

date.		received.	[paid.]
	paid Lydia Ann making garments		2	.00
	gloves 1.75 ribbon 35. tulle 75		2.	85³⁰
	Ticket 36.50 berth 5.50		42	00
	meal at <Buffet> on train		1	65
	Porter 25 supper 50			75
	breakfast on train			25
	Hotel Pendleton		1.	00
	meals dinner & supper		.	50
	paper 10 ink 10 envelopes 5		.	25
	Buffet 25 dinner 50		.	75
	newspapers 15 carriage		.	15
	at Spokane 1.00		1.	00
	ticket 5.35 dinner 50		5.	85
	Church 10 telegram 80		.	90
	telegrams Dot & John Q.		1.	45
	Baby Hillard			1,00

[p. 385] {p. 320}

cash account. september.

date.		received.	[paid.]
	fare to Spokane		5,	35
	tea & porter		–	45
	Dinner		–	50
	fare extra
	on Pullman
	to Pendleton		1	.25
	Pendleton Expense
	Hotel		2	.75
	Breadfast &
	lunch & porters		3	00
	berth Pullman
	Sterling		5.	00
	Oregonian			5

[p. 386] {p. 321}

cash account. october.

date.		received.		[paid.]
1	buns 15, milk 5				25
	steak 35 Book 1.00			1.	35
	screw driver 1			,	15
	scrubbing brush				25
	blacking 25 mush 10				35
	soda water 5 eggs 30			.	35
	Butter		.35	3.	05
	Arena 50 book 50			1	,00

[p. 388] {p. 322}

cash account. november.

date.		received.	[paid.]
12	Emma Brown		11.	25
13	Annette Thompson		10.	00

[p. 390] {p. 323}

cash account. december.

date.		received.	paid.
	Coal		6.	25
	Kindling		2.	00
	Coal		.	80
	oil		1.	00
	Candles		1.	25
	Shoes		2.	50
	Gloves		1	.75
	house expenses		12	.75
	fruit, milk, tea		2	50
	expense Rachel		7.	00
	Christmas gifts		10.	00

[p. 392] {p. 324}

memoranda.

date		dollars.	cts.
	<P.O. Order>
June 16	sent money to H. R. Shattuck for Woman’s Manual of Parliamentary Law, Malden, Mass 12 copies	7	80
16	paid for Woman’s Column 14 copies	3.	50
	P.O. Order
	Alice Stone Blackwell Boston, Mass sent 1.00 currency
June 15	To Clara B. Colby for Woman’s Tribune Delia [Adelia Robison] Lyman Bluff City Utah
1892 June 18
	Wrote to Mell and also to
	Sophy Valentine
19	Rosetta Gilchrist Ashtabula Ohio
	The Home Maker, <one copy> New York
	The Business Woman’s Journal New York one year’s Sub. 1892

[p. 407] {p. 325}

Dorcas [Terry] Farnsworth

one picture of

Emma Smith

cabinet size

S. [Sarah] M. Dell Beaver

one picture Emma Smith

Dr. Pratt [one picture Emma Smith]³¹

B. W. Smith [one picture Emma Smith]

Mrs. Ann E. [Emmett] Browning

479. 27th St.

Ogden City

paid [p. 408] {p. 326}

addresses.

Geo. W. [E.] Browning

Fagolia Upole Samoa

Matthew Noall

Box 410

Honolulu Sandwich Islands

W. [William] T. Stewart

C/o J. H. Dalton

210 Queen St.

(Auckland

(New Zealand

Jos. F [Joseph F. P.] Schonfeld

British P.O.

Constantinople Turkey

Timothy Metz [Mets]

Kordensingel 150

Rotterdam Holland

J. J. Scharrer [John J. Schaerrer]

36. Post Gasse

Berne Switzerland

C. [Charles] W. Stayner

P.O. Box ~~103~~ 474

Washington D.C. [p. 409] {p. 327}

J. Golden Kimball

P.O. Box 103

Chattanooga Tenn.

Pres. Geo. Teasdale

Colonia Diaz

Chihuahua Mexico

C. O. [Charles Ora] Card

Cardston Alberta

N.W.T. Canada

Brigham Young [Jun.]

42. Islington

Liverpool England

Edward H. Anderson

14. Lorentzgade

Copenhagen Denmark

Mrs. A. [Amelia] R. Hillard

823 O’Farrell

San Francisco [p. 410] {p. 328}

Mrs. H. A. White

553 E. 9th South

S.L. City

Physical Beauty

67. 5th Ave. New York <City>

Chas. L. Webster & Co.

Comprehensive Physical Center

21. East, 14th St.

New York City

Junius Miller Supplies [p. 411] {p. 329}

Nellie Blessing Eyster

2045. Pine St.

San Francisco, Cal.

Alice Carey Waterman

319. Ellis St.

San Francisco Cal.

Minna V. Lewis

717. Post St.

San Francisco Cal.

Eliza D. Keith

1001. Pine St.

San Francisco Cal.

Susan T. D’Evelyn

219 Geary St.

San Francisco Cal.

Lilian Plunkett

Emily Browne Powell

Virginia S. Hilliard [p. 412] {p. 330}

Isabel Raymond

Maggie Downing Bram<ard>

Hannah Neal

Florence Percy Matheson

2470. Market St.

San Francisco Cal.

Florence Balgamie

51. Crouch Hull Road

London England

Capt. Jocelyn H. Thompson

Royal Arsenal

Woolwich London Eng.

Alice Rout

Nelson New-Zealand

Mrs. Hoffman

434. Bartlett St.

San Francisco Cal. [p. 413] {p. 331}

Julia A. Vallertson

Care Dr. J. I Green

Tucson Arizona

H. [Hyrum] G. Penniman

213. Shatwell St.

San Francisco, Cal.

Scott Waldo

Williamston

Ingham Co. Mich.

Dr. William Wells

Howell Livingston <Co.>

Michigan [p. 414] {p. 332}

A. M. Mecklem

Colfax Wash

Edmund Russell

Palace Hotel

San Francisco

Edmund Russell

Hotel Brunswick

5th Ave. New York

Pericles & Aspasia

Walter Savage Landor

Edited by C. G. Crump.

London England

69. Great Eastern St.

I. M. Dent & Co.

Publishers 1890 [p. 415] {p. 333}

Mrs. Annie Cheeseman [Mary Annie Walker Cheesman]

Miss Emma Walker

Mrs [Almira Tiffany] Holden

Mrs. Florence [Kimball] Woodruff

Mrs. E. B. Critchlow

Mrs. Parsons [p. 416] {p. 334}

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Footnotes

[1]text: The manuscript shows a pencil correction over the “Be”.
[2]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
[3]text: The bracketed information on this and the following two lines was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
[4]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original. Other cities in brackets on this page were originally indicated by ditto marks.
[5]Woman’s National Press Association.
[6]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
[7]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
[8]Review of Reviews, founded in 1890 and edited by Albert Shaw, was a monthly periodical published in New York City. According to her cash-account listings, EBW ordered a copy in May 1891 and in January, February, May, and August 1892. (“Journals & Newspapers in the Campaign,” 1896: The Presidential Campaign; “W.T. Stead & the Review of Reviews,” W.T. Stead Resource Site; EBW, Diary, Cash Accounts for January, February, May, and August 1892.)
[9]The Writer, a trade magazine on writing, was founded in 1887 and continues as a monthly to the present. (“‘The Writer’ Returns to Boston,” Publishers Weekly, 28 Aug. 2012; “Magazine,” Writer.)
[10]Cushing, Manual of Parliamentary Practice. The year before, EBW ordered two copies for interested women. (See EBW, Diary, 1891, Memoranda.)
[11]text: Beginning in March and continuing through most of the rest of the year, EBW recorded her expenditures in the “Received” column. To avoid confusion to the reader, in this transcript these columns have instead been labeled “[Paid]”.
[12]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
[13]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
[14]Enamel paint.
[15]text: An indecipherable word begins this line.
[16]text: This was written over, either to change a 5 to a 6 or a 6 to a 5.
[17]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original. EBW’s spelling has been retained.
[18]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
[19]text: This and the following line are written vertically up the right side of the page.
[20]Bathsheba W. Smith.
[21]EBW ordered flowers for the Relief Society jubilee from Reading Florist, which she spelled Reedings. (EBW, Diary, 14 Mar. 1892; “Reading John, Florist,” Utah Gazetteer 1892–93, 592.)
[22]On 24 May 1892 while in San Francisco, EBW reported an incident at the wharf: “When the military firing took place one of the artillry men named Wells had his hand shot off.” (EBW, Diary, 24 May 1892.)
[23]The Women’s Column was a feature of the Woman’s Journal, which was published in Boston by Alice Stone Blackwell. (See EBW, Diary, 1892, Memoranda–June; Encyclopedia Britannica Online, s.v. “Alice Stone Blackwell,” last modified 8 Mar. 2018, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Stone-Blackwell.)
[24]text: The remaining items for this date are written around the perimeter of the page.
[25]text: The remaining items for this date are written around the perimeter of the page.
[26]Business Woman’s Journal was first published in New York City in 1889 by Mary Foot Seymour (1846–1893). She opened the Union School of Stenography and Typewriting in New York in 1879, the first stenography school whose students were all women. (Heinemann, Timelines of American Women’s History, 114; Trager, New York Chronology, 189.)
[27]text: In the manuscript, the t and y are collapsed into one.
[28]text: This and the following line are written vertically up the right side of the page.
[29]text: The bracketed information was indicated by ditto marks in the original.
[30]text: EBW left the following five lines blank.
[31]text: The bracketed information on this and the following line was indicated by ditto marks in the original.