Scope and content Negative and positive photostats of one letter from Alfred Finney, August 12, 1824, and two letters from Cephas Washburn October 14 and 27, 1828, to Jeremiah Evarts of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. The letters describe conditions at the Dwight mission and the surrounding area or Arkansas. Description of the local settlements and missions on the Arkansas River. Mention of the potential Cherokee removal. One of the Washburn letters encloses a drawing of the mission...

Scope and content Photostats of letters from M. L. Baker to his family with typed transcriptions. Ten letters dating from September 13, 1846 to May 23, 1849. They describe the writer's participation in Mexican and Indian campaigns. Descriptions of the culture of Indians and landscape of the area around New Mexico, including encounters with Indians. Letters are addressed from Santa Fe New Mexico, Council Grove Kansas, Arkansas River near Pawnee Forks, Albuquerque New Mexico, and Head quarters Fort...