Box 4

These letters include personal endorsements for jobs or introductions, personal and legal family matters, a poem for newspaper publication, pleas for loans, and Mary Major's poignant notes and news from home to her husband. (70 documents)

These letters include Patrick's dispatches from college, family news and gossip, business concerns, political favors and endorsements requested by friends, and a supplier seeking to provide arms to pre-Civil War Kentucky. There is a series of letters signed "Phronie' that are filed under Sophronia A. Matthews. (39 documents)

These letters include requests for political favors, messages from aspiring Yeoman writers and other printing matters, business and personal correspondence, bills and dunning notes, and requests for endorsements. There are two letters from Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune and a one-time vice-presidential candidate for the Republican Party. (68 documents)

The folder, aside from the Scott family, consists of letters from various friends and acquaintances of SIMM-II. Most of these letters discuss various political and judicial events in relation to the Yeoman publications. The Scotts are the family of Mary B. Major (SIMM-II's wife) and generally discuss financial accounts and family matters. (56 documents)

These letters are personal and business interactions until Mr. Scott's death in 1886. Most of the letters pertain to accounts and monetary discussions of money owed, or required for various business situations. Others are more personal discussing the health of marital related family members. (34 documents)

This folder comprises largely letters of business or legal matters. Various letters throughout the folder discuss the candidacy for Speaker of the House within Frankfort and other political matters. Several letters are from his sister Catherine (Kate) Williams nee Major. Several of the letters were written during and discuss the events and politics of the Civil War. There are also letters from E. Rumsey Wing, a family friend, who was Minister to Ecuador at one time. (29 documents)

The majority of the letters contained are signed but are fairly illegible in determining who the sender is. Most of them discuss matters or opinions in response to the Yeoman or otherwise inviting SIMM-II to various events. Others are from unidentified family members, mostly siblings discussing health and happenings within the family. (24 documents)

Envelopes from correspondence to SIMM-II. Some of the envelopes have hand written notes on them. (33 documents)