Manuscript Register

This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

Posted to Internet: Nobember 2003

Acquisition Note: This collection was purchased by the University of Iowa Libraries in 2002.

Access and Restrictions: This collection is open for research.

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Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised entirely of letters between members of the Childs family in various places in Iowa, such as Mount Vernon, Camanche, Low Moor, and Lyons, and Philadephia, Pennsylvania. All are handwritten and some envelopes are included. Though the correspondence is carried on throughout the war years, there is very little mention of the war. Mostly the letters deal with farming and farm prices and domestic cares.

Inventory

1849 -- 1850

1860 -- 1865

1866 -- 1870

1871 -- 1874

1880 -- 1889

Undated or illegible dates