Scope and Content of the Collection From the Collection: Six folders of material relating to Mary Sackett and the Sackett family, including Mary Sackett’s journal kept on a trip from New York City to Lanoa, Illinois in 1841 and 1842.The journal, kept for her brother, is detailed and informative about such topics as the daily activities while traveling by canal boat and steamship, descriptions of the passing landscape including a stop at Niagara Falls, life in rural Illinois while waiting for a house to be built, and the daily problems...