Scope and content Includes notebook tracing the history of the Holden and Holbrook families, and loose correspondence and notes regarding the notebook; Bible records; DAR membership application forms; and other miscellaneous items. Includes data on Helen Holden Dunn, Thomas Holden, Randall Holden, Deacon Able Holbrook, Bertha Dunston Jones, Elizabeth Smith, Donald Smith, George D. Mosher, Philetus S. Smith, Harry M. Smith, John Ernest Dunn, Robert Dunn, and Edward Dunn, and family names Baldwin, Billings,...

Scope and content Collection consists largely of letters between members of the interrelated Tappan, Brewster, Tomlinson, and Shelton families, and emphasizes religious, missionary, and educational experiences. Included are a letter (1821) from a female teacher at the Brainard Cherokee Mission School; letters (1827) from Anne Tappan at Catharine Beecher's School in Hartford, Connecticut; letters (1834) from Lucy Tappan, a teacher at a religious academy in Detroit, concerning local conditions, Miss Beecher,...