EDITH PIERSON LAW

The Wilson family collection contains letters as early as 1880 and as late as 1973. The bulk of the correspondence was written between 1893 and 1909. It consists mostly of letters between Henry Delano Wilson and his wife Ellen (Price) Wilson. Henry was often away from home for long periods of time as a Navy surgeon and wrote to Ellen during his travels describing his day-to-day life. Although he was in the military and does discuss his duties, Henry's letters focus less on these than on other topics. Henry's letters can be difficult to read at times due to a combination of his handwriting, the thin paper he sometimes uses, and the fact that he is often writing from a ship that is pitching in the waves (a fact he mentions in some of his letters).

The collection also contains letters from Ellen's relatives: her sister Florence (Price) Batson, Henry and Ellen's son Henry (“Hank”), Henry’s (“Hank”) wife Edith (Moeller) Wilson, their son H. Robert Wilson, and Edith’s mother Lucretia (McCready) Moeller.