Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Six volumes of Elvira C. Sheridan Badger's diaries spanning the years of 1859-1903, and one diary fragment, 1877-1878, together with two volumes of antebellum parlor music bound for Elvira C. Sheridan prior to her marriage, later diary transcriptions and narratives, a 20th-century family photograph, and a facsimile of a notebook kept by Alpheus Shreve Badger pertaining to the freeing of his slaves from 1852.The diaries provide daily accounts of weather conditions, family...