None of the letters & diaries have been edited, although some possibly contain words or phrases offensive to modern readers.

• Letters - written by Dr. Thomas H. Barnes & his wife Julia A. Orr Barnes - 1854 & 1884
  
  
• Letter - written to Moses & Isabella Ross by daughters - August 1856
  
  
• Letter - written by Benjamin Ratcliff to his sister - April 1858
  Includes a poem about their log cabin written by Benjamin's daughter
  
  
• Letter - written to relatives by William & Emily Thompson - November 1860
  
  
• Letters - written by David McGoon & Samuel Ackerly, published in The True Latter Days Saints Herald - 1870
  
  
• Letter - from J. W. Foster to Alfred B. Foster & wife - December 1877
  
  
• Letter - from J. W. Foster to Alfred B. Foster & L. Foster - before 1879
  
  
• Letter - written to Mr. Alfred Foster by Florence Ida Foster - February 1879
  
  
• Letter - from John B. Murray to his father Michael in Ireland - March 1881
  
  
• Letter - written to J.H. Jones, Waukon from San Francisco, CA about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
  
  
• Letter - written by soldier George Aschom to his family from Germany, 1919
  New! April 2009
  
  
• Diary - partial diary of Sidney Thor Koontz written during his WWI overseas duty in England & Ireland
  
  
• Letter - from Geo. Coppersmith written to the Allamakee Journal & Lansing Mirror, 1930