Collection consists of a typescript copy of a diary written by I. J. Baldwin, describing an overland journey he took from Providence, Rhode Island, to San Francisco, California and back ca. 1873-1874. The diary was first published in the Julesburg Grit-Advocate of Julesburg, Colorado, from February 10-18, 1944. Baldwin, an employee of the A W Sprague Manufacturing Company of Providence, undertook the journey for health reasons.