Washington

Scope and Contents This collection includes autographed, signed letters from Absalom Elliott and Jesse Shields Elliott in an undetermined location and Toledo, Washington ranging from 1860 to 1908 regarding the Civil War and genealogy.

Scope and Contents This collection contains a 6-page letter from Miriam Hazzard to family and friends in Indiana from Claquato, Lewis County, Washington Territory on June 20, 1882. Her letter relates the places she and her family traveled through during their train trip out west in April, 1882. She mentions several times the different snow sheds that the train passed through and that the family suffered "deathly illness" aboard ship traveling from San Fransico, California to Portland, Oregon. Mrs. Hazzard also...