Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Elizabeth Pickett Tolman diary offers a remarkably intimate look into the life of a plural wife in the last decades of the nineteenth century. More of an autobiographical narrative than a daily record, the volume captures Elizabeth's struggle to rectify her religious beliefs with her personal feelings: "I could hardly think it possible that the husband with whom I had lived so happy and loved so dearly better than life itself any other sacrifice it appears to me could have...