Box 13
Container
Contains 10 Results:
Correspondence, 1879-1888
File — Box: 13, Folder: 1
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with family members including cousins, aunts, and uncles. There is also correspondence with Earl's sister Ida, but not on a regular basis. Ida Douglass Battin and her husband lived on a homestead in Iroquois, South Dakota. Earl visited Ida occasionally and boarded with them when he was a student at South Dakota Agricultural College and teaching school in the area.
Dates:
1879-1888
Correspondence | | , 1889-1897
File — Box: 13, Folder: 2-3
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Correspondence to Earl from relatives including his sister Ida Battin, Ida's children, and her husband Alfred. There are also letters from cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Dates:
1889-1897
Correspondence, 1900-1903
File — Box: 13, Folder: 4
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Letters from relatives of Earl Douglass in South Dakota and Minnesota.
Dates:
1900-1903
Correspondence, 1904-1909
File — Box: 13, Folder: 5
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Letters to Earl Douglass from relatives in Minnesota expressing strong family ties and interests.
Dates:
1904-1909
Correspondence, 1906-1909
File — Box: 13, Folder: 6
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
One letter from Pearl's mother, Charlotte Goetschius, relating family events in Alder, Montana, and letters from Pearl's brothers Grover and Frank Goetschius.
Dates:
1906-1909
Correspondence, 1910-1921
File — Box: 13, Folder: 7
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
One letter from Pearl's mother (10 April 1914) and letters from other relatives.
Dates:
1910-1921
Correspondence, 1922-1924
File — Box: 13, Folder: 8
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Many of the letters in early 1923 comment on Nettie's stroke which left her helpless. Relatives on both sides seemed concerned. Several letters from Earl to relatives reported on Netter's condition. Nettie died 23 March 1923. Letters from Earl in 1924 tell of Pearl's poor health and her need to spend some time at a lower altitude. Pearl went to California in 1924.
Dates:
1922-1924
Correspondence, 1925-1930
File — Box: 13, Folder: 9
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Earl and Pearl Douglass and relatives (nieces, nephews, aunts, and uncles).
Dates:
1925-1930
Correspondence, 1927-1928
File — Box: 13, Folder: 10
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
Letters from Earl to his son Gawin and Grover Goetschius, a brother of Pearl Douglass, living on the family farm in Montana. Douglass wrote of the possibility of striking oil on some of their (Earl's, Pearl's, and Grover's) holdings in the Uinta Basin, "But don't get too hilarious for all things are uncertain and one of the most uncertain of them all is the oil game the way it is played."
Dates:
1927-1928
Correspondence, 1935
File — Box: 13, Folder: 11
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents
A letter from Charlotte Goetschius to her daughter Pearl, 25 September.
Dates:
1935