Dorset Family Papers

Container Title
(Series 2)
Series: Business Correspondence

Scope and Contents

The Business Correspondence series is divided into correspondence directed to Nannie Dorset and that directed to Nannie Colwell. The letters date from 1858 to 1952. Those to Nannie Dorset deal mainly with her real estate holdings in La Crosse. Nannie Colwell’s business correspondence concerns her as a legatee of the Lemon Estate, which began in 1896 and continued until her death. There are also papers from some Colwell family estates.

(Subseries 2.1)
Subseries: Correspondence to Nannie Colwell
Box 12
  Folder 15
Canceled checks, 1899-1900
Box 11
  Folder 9
Colwell, J. A., 1878-1879
Box 12
  Folder 13
Colwell relatives' estates, 1882-1947
Box 12
  Folder 17
Last will and testament, 1952
Box 11
  Folder 16-18
Box 12
  Folder 1-12
Lemon, Captain estate, 1896-1954
Box 12
  Folder 14
Martin, Eben and Virginia Pike, 1902-1903
Box 9
  Folder 10-15
Meredith, W. B., 1876-1923
Box 12
  Folder 16
Miscellaneous, 1926-1950
(Subseries 2.2)
Subseries: Correspondence to Nannie Dorset
Box 11
  Folder 3-4
Bliss, H. I., 1868-1876
Box 11
  Folder 5
Bliss, H. I. accounts, 1864-1880
Box 11
  Folder 7
Colwell, J. A., 1868-1878
Box 11
  Folder 6
Howe and Tourtellotte accounts, 1880-1882
Box 11
  Folder 8
Pension papers, 1874-1926
Box 11
  Folder 1-2
Real estate papers, 1858-1898, undated