MS 4419 Copy and Fragment of John Colton Sumner Journal
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 4419
name: label: Creator
content: Sumner, John Colton
label: Creator
content: Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922
label: Addressee
content: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
creator: label: Creator
content: Sumner, John Colton
label: Creator
content: Stanton, Robert Brewster, 1846-1922
label: Addressee
content: Holmes, William Henry, 1846-1933
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Previously titled "Journal."
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4419
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Journals (accounts)
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Digital surrogates are available. 30 digital images
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Sumner's journal is published, with biographical notes and discussion by William Culp Darrah in Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 15, 1947.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Journals (accounts)
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Darrah states that the handwritten copy of the journal formerly in the Bureau of American Ethnology is now in the Stanton collection in the New York Public Library. He is of the opinion that this handwritten copy was not made by Sumner, but a Bureau of American Ethnology copyist.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: August 17-27 [1869]. 3 pages. Found in J. W. Powell's 1869 journal (Manuscript 1795a). Written in pencil on 3 torn-out leaves similar to those in the notebooks used by Powell for his journal. Believed to be a fragment of Sumner's original notes. July 5- August 31, 1869. 22 leaves and pages. Typed copy made from handwritten copy believed to have been made by Sumner from his original notes. Stanton, Robert Brewster to William H. Holmes, Washington, D. C. New York City, March 23, 1907. 1 page Typed letter signed. Acknowledges receipt of copy of Sumner's journal, which he recognises as being in Sumner's hand and signed by him. [No previous correspondence in Smithsonian Institution files, June, 1954.]