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Diaries and Memorandum Books
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Diary of Trip from Wyalusing to Stillwater, July 1, 1856-July 30, 1856
: Mills traveled on foot through Minnesota past Rush City where he owned land to Superior, via Sault Ste. Marie and Milwaukee, to Madison. Description of land, settlement, residents, etc.
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Memorandum Book and Diary, 1861, August 11-1862, December 24
: Includes memoranda and notes on law cases; description of military forces in Madison, comments on Lincoln's policy regarding seceded states, characterization of legislators, and a description of a trip on the Mississippi River.
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Memorandum Book and Diary, 1864, Jan. 25-1865, May 6
: Account of a trip in August 1864 via the Great Lakes to Washington, D.C. and battlefields. Also includes a record of Mills' interview with President Lincoln.
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Memorandum Book and Diary, 1866, Dec. 3-1868, May 2
: Discusses weather, charges to juries, journeys, court sessions, brief description of Barrett's Ferry on Wisconsin River, trip to Detroit via Mackinac.
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Memorandum Book and Diary, 1868, May 10-1870, Dec 31
: Describes weather, expenses, court sessions, jottings regarding local history and persons met with on trips (“I saw the trumpeter Russell at Battle of Balaklava...he keeps a saloon in Chicago.”), and a trip to St. Anthony Falls.
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Memorandum Book and Diary, 1878, Nov. 14-1882, Jan 4
: Describes weather, addresses, legislative proceedings. Most of book is devoted to an account of a trip to Colorado, June 8-Oct. 13, 1880.
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Miscellaneous Letters
: Includes a few Civil War letters; a letter from Virginia in 1868 regarding reconstruction; and a letter from J.C. Cover, Fayal, Spain, 1871, describing conditions there.
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Letter Book of McKee and Mills, later J.T. Mills, Nov. 23, 1856-July 18, 1864
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