The William Clayton diaries and ledger consist of copies of Clayton's 1840-1842 journal, ledger and his 1852-1853 diary. Clayton was prominent in the LDS movement. He was summoned to Joseph Smith's office to assist Willard Richards and subsequently became clerk to Joseph Smith. Later, he followed Brigham Young to the Great Salt Lake Valley and served missions for the his church.

The David Hogg Matheson autobiography is a typescript which was dictated by Matheson to his granddaughter Barbara Ellen Matheson Adams.

This collection consists of an exact copy of Henry Rampton's own diary which he wrote during the years 1853 to 1881. Provides retrospective remembrances of life in England and Utah by a Mormon convert who emigrated to Salt Lake City in 1856.