Temple family correspondence, mostly Winona, Minnesota and Williamstown, Massachusetts. Letters from Katie J. Cope, a school teacher in New Lenox, Massachusetts, to Mrs. Julia Lindley, in Williamstown, Massachusetts, describing her life as a school teacher (1855), from Kate Temple, Winona, Minnesota to her sister Julia (1858) writing about hard times in Minnesota, railroad building in the Territory, possible removal of the family to Iowa, from Seth Temple in Winona to his brother in which he discusses wild cat currency and prices of land (1859), the effect of the panic on Western banks, and the price of wheat, reaction to the seccession of South Carolina (1861), the relationship between the panic of 1873 in the east and western farm prices (1873).