Scope and Contents This folder includes three letters, two fabric swatches, and one wallpaper fragment. Lucy reports on household life and the children’s school in the first. There are also two letters attached to the first letter. One from Winthrop E. describing the daily activities at home and one from Harriet describing a new dress she received. In the second letter from Lucy,she discusses Winthrop’s correspondence with war widows and sends pieces of Harriet’s dress. In the third letter, Lucy discusses...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Phelps Family Papers consist primarily of correspondence. Most of the letters date from 1854-1865 and were written to or from Rev. Winthrop Henry Phelps, who served as chaplain to the 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery during the Civil War and from his wife Lucy F. Robinson Phelps. Among the most noteworthy of the papers are a series of diaries maintained by Rev. Phelps. Several of these were edited by his granddaughter Ethel Lowerre Phelps in 1945 and published as limited editions titled...

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1 letter, in the letter Mrs. Jenks writes about trying to get her brother’s bounty for enlisting in the army and followed the transfer of money to Winthrop. She asks Winthrop if he has sent the money to her or what had happened to it.

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1 letter, in this letter Vandian ask Winthrop to try to get money owed to him from Lt. Snowden and send it to him.

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This record is an alphabetized list, organized by recipients of Winthrop H. Phelps’s letters. Also included is a list of where Winthrop preached his sermons, with a date next to each.