Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence to Isaac Cook from various individuals dated 1845-1853, including a letter from Stephen A. Douglas dated May 27, 1853. Collection also includes papers regarding Mrs. Edith M. Cook’s stock in the Boreel Mining Company, 1902-1939; newspaper and magazine articles, dated 1928, regarding a memorial to Dr. John Thomson Hodgen and Dr. John Thomson Hodgen in Pittsfield, Illinois; and correspondence of Mrs. N.E. Collins, matron of the Home of the Friendless (St....

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a travel diary, two letters, and two documents recounting Dr. Parker’s Civil War service and Parker’s Battery. The collection dates from 1843 to 1920, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1854 to 1855, and large gaps from 1865 to 1900 and 1907 to from 1920. It is arranged chronologically. The bulk of the diary records Parker’s trip to England, Ireland, Scotland, and France from September 30, 1854, to March 23, 1855. The trip was a combination...