Box 2

Railroad progress, establishment of the town of Cheyenne, Wyoming, brief mention of Indian attacks.

Railroad progress, movement of camps, expenses.

Travel by stagecoach to Salt Lake City, Utah; daily labor, weather reports; memoranda pages contain notes on elevation between Omaha and Sacramento.

Work progress, lines run, weather, expenses; Oregon, Idaho, western territories. Postage stamp enclosed in rear pocket of the diary.

Work progress, weather, calculations; enclosures.

Travel to and arrival in Peru; enclosures.

Notes arrival of letters from home.

Work progress in Peru.

Includes addresses; home life in Delaware; travel to Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York, Kansas, and Danville, Ohio.

Work progress, camp life, expenses; locations in Boise and Pocatello, Idaho; Butte, Montana; and Utah.

Entries primarily inventories.

Travel to South America; boat trip returning to the United States with stops at Cartagena, Colon, Panama, Costa Rica; home life in Newark, Delaware.

Work trip to Tuscaloosa; travel to Philadelphia, New York; home life in Newark; weather reports.

Weather, daily reports in Newark.

Weather, miles walked daily in Newark.

Weather, miles walked daily, Hattie's illness, trip to Chicago.

Weather, recovery from an illness, trip to Cleveland.

Weather, addresses, monthly accounts with magazine subscriptions.

Building a new home, weather, addresses, magazine accounts.

Few entries: weather, addresses, magazine accounts.

Laid in is a letter from Maxwell to his sister with response to her views of President Abraham Lincoln.