Box 8

Scope and Contents

Sophy Carr Mason married James Caperton Burnam in 1944. The items in the following folder are from Mrs. James Caperton Burnam to her mother Sophy Johnston. The letters were retained in their original arrangement upon donation and are consequently ordered chronologically.

Scope and Contents

The few letters that are found in the following folder all had the script of "Copy Bound Letters", which can be assumed was meant as a reference to their potential inclusion in the Bound Letters Volumes that are found in Boxes 43 through 45.

Scope and Contents Upon donation it was discovered that Mrs. Caperton, as was the practice of the time, hand copied numerous letters of importance for her personal records and reference. While processing the collection attention was paid to these as a separate subseries since there are also handwritten notes by Mrs. Caperton that help shed light on the value she placed in each particular item of correspondence. As a result, all the copied letters that did not have a logical counterpart upon processing the...

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence from the Historic American Buildings Survey, which was sponsored by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration during the Great Depression. All the letters relate to those Depression Era efforts that were aimed at documenting historic buildings, putting drafters back to work, and, perhaps most important, ensuring that America's historic buildings "should not pass into unrecorded oblivion." The correspondence addresses Mrs. Caperton as...

Scope and Contents

The correspondence in this folder are all written in French with subject matters that are undetermined. Jamie and Katherine Caperton both spoke French so these letters are presumably related to these efforts and/or the relationships they built while traveling abroad in the 1920s.

Scope and Contents

Although there is a Greeting Cards Series that can be found in Box 26 of the collection, the cards that had personal handwritten messages were separated and retained in the Correspondence Series.

Scope and Contents

Catherine Jennings was the only daughter to come from Minerva Phelps's second marriage to Frank Jennings of Florida.

Scope and Contents

The Caperton-Burnam Family Papers contained materials from a variety of sources that were sometimes difficult to separate and categorize individually or relate to other series or subseries. All the miscellaneous correspondence that could not be related to other series are found in the following folder.

Scope and Contents

The Miscellaneous Notes folder contains handwritten notes on the actual envelops that each particular note refers. Presumably, these notes served as reminders or reference sources for Mrs. Caperton's personal and public life and activities, or her research as a local and regional historian and genealogist.

Scope and Contents

See Box 8 Folder 3 description.