Women

Mary Taylor Hale correspondence

Collection

Identifier: c-00330

Scope and Contents

The bulk of the correspondence was written by friends and relatives in Michigan and California in the period 1864-1880 to Mary Taylor, later Mrs. Richard Hale, a school teacher residing in Milford, Michigan

In addition to education and the problems of teaching, such topics as the Civil War, the draft, election politics, and farming activities are discussed.

Also included are the courtship letters (1842) of John Taylor of Milford and Jane Wark of New York City.

Dates: 1835 - 1880

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Mrs. Carl Wolff collection

Collection

Identifier: c-00249

Scope and Contents

This collection contains five letters to Alexander Brown in Jackson County, Michigan, from relatives in New York. The letters discuss family news, agriculture prospects, and the possibility of moving to Michigan as Brown had done (1836). Also included is a diary kept by Belle Voorheis of Mungerville (now Burton), Michigan. Her entries record life in rural Michigan in 1872. The collection also contains a recipe for brewing beer.

Dates: 1836, 1872

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

MWA Newsletter, The

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: Serial-01043

Dates: 1991 - 1995

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Pendleton family papers

Collection

Identifier: c-00295

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, a majority from relatives and school friends of Lottie Pendleton (later Mrs. George W. Bailey) whose home was in Cleveland, Ohio, and who attended college at Adrian, Michigan. The letters (1854-1862) are largely from students at Albion and Oberlin Colleges and the University of Michigan, discussing future visits and the infrequency or shortness of letters written or received. Also included is a letter from her brother, Harry, describing events of the...

Dates: 1774 - 1887

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Potpourri UA 8.2.2, UA 4.6

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: Serial-00575

Dates: 1975 - 1977

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Stoddard family papers

Collection

Identifier: c-00011

Scope and Contents This collections consists of transcripts of two letters written by early residents of Michigan. One letter (1852), written by Caroline Stoddard to her sister concerns the family's trip from New York to Tuscola County, Michigan via Lake Erie. The other letter (1864) was written by Caroline Stoddard's daughter-in-law, Jannette Stoddard, to her sister, commenting on the effect of conscription during the Civil War.The 1864 letter has been transcribed, scanned and placed online at ...

Dates: 1852, 1864

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Track and Field (Women's) UA 8.1.3.16

Collection — Box 1

Identifier: Serial-00912

Dates: 1985 - 2005

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Waters family correspondence

Collection

Identifier: c-00325

Scope and Contents This collection contains five letters relating family matters, three of them from Achsa Waters of Independence and Union, Michigan, to her family (Otis) in Steuben County, New York. She mentions visits to Oberlin, Ohio; a trip through Memphis to Vicksburg, Mississippi (1864) to teach the "colored people" and to deliver clothing from Oberlin and Union. Another letter, form Otis B. Waters of Genessee County, New York to his uncle, talks of finances and an impending trip "West" to be married....

Dates: 1860 - 1865

Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections