Ella Middleton Shute letters to Louie Earle Williams

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  Ella P. Starkweather letter to "Mrs. Dwight and Family,"

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  This letter was written by Ella P. Starkweather, a school teacher, living in the town of Bridgewater, now part of South Dakota. Starkweather describes her experiences in Dakota Territory to her friends back home. To her surprise, she likes the school where she is teaching. There are new series of books, a school room that is large and pleasantly furnished. She writes that some of her students could benefit from a lesson on cleanliness: "...a few would be rendered much more attractive by a vigorous application of soap suds..." Regarding life on the frontier, she writes: "You may imagine the people here are sick of the country, and I can hardly give you an idea how happy and contented they all seem to be. They say the most scant time for provisions they have known is since I came and I know of no one suffering." She also touches upon the weather and the farmers. "The country looks lovely, farmers who had seed here and sown find everything encouraging." Near the end of the letter, she describes her layover in Sheldon, Iowa for five days and her amusement regarding a car half-filled with Bohemian immigrants.

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  John Tobin letter to Sarah Jane Tobin and Ella Tobin

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  Letter from John Tobin, a Mormon missionary serving in Glasgow, Scotland, to his wife Sarah Jane and daughter Ella. Tobin writes of his preaching duties, of his enjoyment of Brigham Young's discourses in the Deseret News, and of his sighting of the "Empress of the French." He also apologizes for the hardships his wife has suffered and warns her to be on her guard for ill-feelings toward her from the community. Tobin writes that he misses his family and is looking forward to returning home as soon as possible.

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  Ella Watson Mizner letter to "My dear Sisters"

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  Letter serves as a personal narrative of Ella Watson Mizner's experiences during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire and its aftermath.

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  Charles Milton Buchanan letter to Ella Higginson

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  Buchanan wrote this letter in response to a letter he received from writer Ella Higginson requesting information on Indians in Alaska and Alaska in general. Buchanan suggests she read some of the Bulletins published by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of Ethnology, as well as various works by Miner Bruce, Henry Henshaw, Otis Mason, and Dr. Sheldon Jackson. Higginson, who was from Washington, published her book Alaska, the great country three years later.

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  Earl, Ella [Mrs. Guy C. Earl] letters

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  The Ford and Connelley family correspondence consists of letters primarily addressed to Jerome Chester Ford and his wife, Minnie Belle Ford. The letters from Ford's son, Clinton Ireton Brainerd, mostly concern his finances. In a letter dated February 28, 1938, Clinton's wife writes "I have blamed myself a thousand times over, not that I should have been so insistant [sic] about getting out of the stock market but I have been so late in doing it...However, I am convinced of one thing that something in human nature that makes you hang on when you are apparently making money to try and make a little more is hard to overcome." The letters from Margaret Jean and Janet Anne Connelley are addressed to relatives, primarily thanking them for cards and gifts received. Note: Margaret Jean is often referred to as "Peggy." Connelley's wife, Margaret, writes lengthy letters updating her parents on family and social life. The bulk of Connelley's letters are written from the United States Navy Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he teaches. In one letter, Connelley admits "I suppose I will stay here at the Naval Academ about a year and somebody has be here, but I feel funny not to be at sea fighting instead of being here teaching" (March 17, 1942). There are also several letters written on the USS Indianapolis (CA-35). Connelley blissfully writes "The wind is constant and the weather is perfect- a light blanket feels good at night. The white caps on the water are so very white against the blue of the water, it really is an intoxicating sight-diamonds against sapphires" (February 22, 1939). Additonal letters found in the collection are from other relatives.

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  Earl, Ella [Mrs. Guy C. Earl] letters

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  The Ford and Connelley family correspondence consists of letters primarily addressed to Jerome Chester Ford and his wife, Minnie Belle Ford. The letters from Ford's son, Clinton Ireton Brainerd, mostly concern his finances. In a letter dated February 28, 1938, Clinton's wife writes "I have blamed myself a thousand times over, not that I should have been so insistant [sic] about getting out of the stock market but I have been so late in doing it...However, I am convinced of one thing that something in human nature that makes you hang on when you are apparently making money to try and make a little more is hard to overcome." The letters from Margaret Jean and Janet Anne Connelley are addressed to relatives, primarily thanking them for cards and gifts received. Note: Margaret Jean is often referred to as "Peggy." Connelley's wife, Margaret, writes lengthy letters updating her parents on family and social life. The bulk of Connelley's letters are written from the United States Navy Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he teaches. In one letter, Connelley admits "I suppose I will stay here at the Naval Academ about a year and somebody has be here, but I feel funny not to be at sea fighting instead of being here teaching" (March 17, 1942). There are also several letters written on the USS Indianapolis (CA-35). Connelley blissfully writes "The wind is constant and the weather is perfect- a light blanket feels good at night. The white caps on the water are so very white against the blue of the water, it really is an intoxicating sight-diamonds against sapphires" (February 22, 1939). Additonal letters found in the collection are from other relatives.

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