Scope and content Letters (1832-1842) from James Templeton of Hennepin, Illinois to his brother Samuel Templeton of New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania, on bookselling, land settlement, the costs of land, animals, building, weather conditions, crops, and the need of money. Letters (1849-1856) from Sam Templeton of Freeport, Illinois, to Philip Grass of New Berlin on labor, land, produce, interest costs, the need of a post office and craftsmen, a description of a prairie fire, and on the raising of wheat...