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Collection includes correspondence, deeds, receipts, miscellaneous items, and typescripts of two oral histories. One interview was with John Hunt and was conducted by Mary Rusher for the Utah Historical Society Oral History Program on 16 July 1973. The other interview was with John Hunt and his wife, Grace, and was conducted by Samuel Moon on 17 July 1975. Most of the items deal primarily with John Hunt's business activities, while the oral histories relate to the history of the Blanding, Utah area and to relations with the Navajo Indians.
The collection contains papers, notes, transcripts, and biographies written by Elliott about John and Lois Barnes Hunt. Also includes Lois' New Testament in Tahitian. Dated 1904-1954.
Civil War diary, written in a Daily pocket remembrance for 1865, by John R. Hunt Jr. in Washington D.C., records his work endorsing papers in the War Dept.; his social activities, including visits to the theatre and the war ships Monitor and Stonewall; as well as war rumors and observations of Lincoln's assassination and funeral. Many gaps in diary, notably when he leaves Washington in May for Ohio, with few entries until he returns to Washington in October. In November he comments on the hanging of Andersonville Military Prison commandant, Henry Wirz. Also includes nine calling cards printed for J.R. Hunt, Jr. and for [his mother], Mrs. Dr. J.R. Hunt and a tin type in oval gilt matte depicting Hunt in slouch hat with his hand on the hilt of an infantry sabre.
Collection includes: a store license issued by the South Carolina Board of Commissioners "to sell and retail all kinds of spirituous liquors in any less quantity than three gallons" at John Hunt's store Huntsville; and receipt for making whiskey and "beer of persimmon bread."