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Title: [Henry Harrison Wilder] to Mother
Description: Henry writes from Camp Griffin, Va of the regiment's scouting expedition, of Capt. Stowell's company, of obtaining two hogs from a pen, of the fact that the captain is not very liked and that Lt. Hamilton is well liked by the company. Cautions his mother against being bothered about hear say.

Title: [Jennie Perry] to Katherine Fletcher, 1888 May 5
Description: Topics include her teaching position in South Hero, VT, former schoolmates' activities, a conversation between her and Katie at the end of school, and a song called "The Normal Girls" sung by the Johnson Serenade Band while they were at school.

Title: [Jennie Perry] to Katherine Fletcher, [1888] February 10
Description: Topics include her activities since graduation, her desire to teach in the summer, recalling an "episode" involving cars, and the illness of Mrs. Campbell.

Title: [Jennie Perry] to Katherine Fletcher, [1888] March 20
Description: Topics include activities of former schoolmates, the class letter being sent around, a blizzard, getting a telegraph line installed in South Hero, and attending an exhibition at Town Hall for a school.

Title: [Katherine Fletcher?] to Carl Smith, 1883 April 29
Description: Topics include her sister Carrie's recent illness with St. Vitus' dance (Chorea) and her own attempts to collect advertising cards.

Title: [Katherine Fletcher?] to Lucy Smith, 1883 July 9
Description: Topics include a fourth of July outing to North Cambridge, VT, and the end of the school term activities.

Title: [Katherine Fletcher] to Jessie [s.n.], 1886 April
Description: Topics include teaching in a Cambridge, VT school and studying music.

Title: [Lamuay] to John Wolcott Phelps
Description: Topics include errors in Colonel Phelps' rolls and a special order allowing Colonel Phelps to decide where the 1st Regiment Vermont Volunteer Militia will camp.

Title: [Lawrence] D. Clark, [William] W. Pelton, [Hiram] E. Perkins, [Dudley K.] Andross, [Oscar S.] Tuttle, [William] H. Boynton, [Joseph] Bush, [David B.] Peck, [Eben S.] Hayward, and Wm. Y. W. Ripley to John Wolcott Phelps
Description: Topics include the commanding officers of the 1st Regiment of the Vermont Volunteer Militia requesting the 1st Regiment be allowed to stay at the Willard Hotel.

Title: [Le Grand B. Cannon] to John Wolcott Phelps
Description: Topics include General Phelps returning to Vermont and addressing members of the Legislature. (Phelps resigned his commission Aug. 21, 1862 after Washington rejected his recruitment of African Americans to fight for the Union.) Cannon invites Phelps to visit him to talk about the war.

Title: [Lemuel Colton?] to Andrew and Ruth Fletcher and Lydia Colton, 1840 February 18
Description: Topics include the deaths of Clark and Susan Pratt and the activities of Moses Shepard Colton and his family.

Title: [M.S. Burnell?] to Katherine Fletcher, 1888 March 29
Description: Topics include having already filled the teaching position for the Spring term in the town of Wolcott.

Title: [Mamie Flagg?] to Katherine Fletcher, 1887 July 5
Description: Topics include attending a (Young People's Society of Christian Endeavour?) Convention by taking a sailboat across the lake, activities with her friends, Katherine teaching, and she not.

Title: [Mamie Flagg] to Katherine Fletcher, 1887 April 24
Description: Topics include taking her teacher's examination, having sugar on snow, C.A. Weston and Willis Hubbard's governmental appointments, and her desire to live where people had more "spunk."

Title: [Mary Harvey?] to Ruth Fletcher, 1850 December 11
Description: Topics include her difficulties with the father of a girl who was helping with her boarding house, Field's (?) departure for California, other departures, her eye trouble, and the health and activities of her children.

Title: [Mary Harvey?] to Ruth and Andrew Fletcher, 1860 January 19
Description: Topics include the prices of grains and stocks in Illinois, the village conditions and organizations, and the state of their farm. This letter is a fragment: the final page or pages are missing, including the closing signature. The attribution of authorship is based on the handwriting and topics...
Show moreTopics include the prices of grains and stocks in Illinois, the village conditions and organizations, and the state of their farm. This letter is a fragment: the final page or pages are missing, including the closing signature. The attribution of authorship is based on the handwriting and topics of the letter.
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Title: [Mrs. Abed Whipple?] to Katherine Fletcher, 1888 April 3
Description: Topics include teaching positions in and near North Pomfret, VT.

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