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Box 1

Correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of the Baker family

Arrangement

Arranged with envelopes (containing volumes and larger items) first, followed by folders. The folders are chiefly arranged by author and then chronologically.
Box 1, Envelope 14

Baker, Obadiah E. Notebook chiefly containing miscellaneous lines of poetry. 1891-1897

Physical Description: 12 Leaves21 x 11 cm

General

The envelope lists 2 volumes; 1 volume is missing as of 2004.
Box 1, Envelope 15

[MISSING] Baker, Obadiah E. Notebook. 1900, not after

Box 1, Envelope 16

Baker, Obadiah E. 2 notebooks chiefly containing miscellaneous lines of poetry. 1903

Physical Description: 15 x 9 cm.
Box 1, Envelope 17

Baker, Obadiah E. Notebook chiefly containing miscellaneous lines of poetry. 1900-1923

Physical Description: 21 x 9 cm.
Box 1, Envelope 18

Notebook of a trip to California. 1876

Physical Description:

Scope and Contents

Includes entries of a trip from Strawberry Point, Iowa, to Northern California (March 7-March 31, 1876), presumably penned by a relative or friend of the Bakers.
Box 1, Envelope 19

Baker, Obadiah E. Pocket diaries with entries. 1900, not after

Physical Description: 15 x 9 cm.
Box 1, Envelope 20

Baker, Obadiah E. Notebook with miscellaneous entries/accounts. 1914 and undated.

Scope and Contents

Notebook with miscellaneous entries with poems, including "Death of Lincoln," family records, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Baker Family
Box 1, Envelope 21

Baker, Obadiah E. Miscellaneous documents, tax receipts, and land records. 1867-1910

Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous documents including bonds, receipts, land records, state and county taxes (Modoc Co., Cal.), a report of the Treasurer of the 1st Congregational Church of Las Guilers, California (1 p.), poem: Life's Mystery, and a register of school taught in Putnam, Iowa in 1867 (1 p.)
Box 1, Envelope 22

Baker, Melissa Dalton. Journal/letters to Obadiah E. Baker. 1862, Aug. 6-12

Scope and Contents

Letters to Obadiah Baker with war news and reflecting pride in husband.
Box 1, Envelope 23

Photographs of Baker family. [Approximately 1960s-1917]

Scope and Contents

Four photographs consisting of "Mr. and Mrs. Baker in front of Kenwood Home, Aug 1917," a carte-de-visite portrait and a later portrait of the same unidentified man, presumably Obadiah Baker, and a group portrait of an unidentified family in front of a house.
Box 1, Folder 1

Baker, Caroline Melissa. 9 letters to Obadiah E. Baker chiefly with school news; mentions her painting. 1882-1887

Box 1, Folder 2

Baker, Caroline Melissa and Baker, Melissa Dalton. Letter to Obadiah E. Baker. 1886, Aug. 16

Box 1, Folder 3

Baker, Caroline Melissa and Baker, Milo Samuel. 3 letters to Obadiah E. Baker with school news. 1882-1883

Box 1, Folder 4

Baker, David. Letter to Obadiah E. Baker regarding the estate of John Baker, Strawberry Hill, Iowa. 1880, Sept. 17

Box 1, Folder 5

Baker, John. Letter to Obadiah and Melissa Baker with family news, Strawberry Hill, Iowa. 1877, January 25

Box 1, Folder 6

Baker, John. Letter to Obadiah and Melissa Baker with family news, Strawberry Hill, Iowa. 1877, April 15

Box 1, Folder 7

Baker, Melissa. Letter to Milo Samuel Baker. [between 1900 and 1918] March 27

Scope and Contents

With fragment of letter "To Joe," August 22, 1886.
Box 1, Folder 8

Baker, Melissa Dalton Letter to Obadiah E. Baker with family news. 1881, Dec. 11

Box 1, Folder 9

Baker, Melissa Dalton and Baker, Caroline Melissa, 21 letters to Obadiah E. Baker. 1882-1897

Box 1, Folder 10

Baker, Milo Samuel Letter to Melissa Dalton Baker. 1889, Feb. 3

Box 1, Folder 11

Baker, Milo Samuel. 5 letters to Obadiah E. Baker. 1883-1886

Box 1, Folder 12

Baker, Caroline Melissa, Baker, Milo Samuel, and Baker, Melissa Dalton. 6 letters to Obadiah E. Baker. 1882-1883

Box 1, Folder 13

Baker, Milo Samuel and Baker, Melissa Dalton. 4 letters to Obadiah E. Baker. 1883-1886

Box 1, Folder 14

Baker, Obadiah E. Letter to Caroline and Melissa Baker regarding family's illnesses. 1879, May 4

Box 1, Folder 15

Baker, Obadiah E. Civil War journal fragments; contains letter to Melissa Baker. 1863-1865

Physical Description: 6 Items
Box 1, Folder 16

Baker, Obadiah E. Fragment of a journal kept while traveling in Arkansas. [1870s?]

Box 1, Folder 17

Baker, Obadiah E. Fragments of Civil War memoir. Approximately 1900

Box 1, Folder 18

Baker, Obadiah E. Poems. 1859-1900 ?

Box 1, Folder 19

Baker, Obadiah E. Poems 1860-1923

Box 1, Folder 20

Baker, Obadiah E. Poems. 1860-1923

Box 1, Folder 21

Baker, Obadiah E. Poems. 1900-1923

Box 1, Folder 22

Baker, Obadiah E. Poems. 1885-1890

Box 1, Folder 22a

Baker, Obadiah E. Poems. 1860-1923

Box 1, Folder 23

Baker, Obadiah E. Poems. 1860-1923

Box 1, Folder 24

Baker, Obadiah E. Poems. 1860-1923

Box 1, Folder 25

Baker, Samuel K. Legal document con cerning money received from the estate of John Baker. 1852, Oct. 25

Box 1, Folder 26

Bell, S.G. Letter to Obadiah E. Baker 1899, Jan. 20

Box 1, Folder 27

Clark, Mary A. Letter to John Baker and Ruth Baker with school news. 1879, May 11

Box 1, Folder 28

Haylin, N.L. Letter to Obadiah E. Baker regarding veterans. 1899, June 21

Box 1, Folder 29

Morley, A.E. Letter to Obadiah E. Baker (?). 1883, May 7

Box 1, Folder 30

Willard, Frances Elizabeth Letter to Sarah J. Churchill on Woman's Christian Temperance Union letterhead. 1889, July 1

Box 1, Folder 31

Willard, Frances Elizabeth Letter to Sarah J. Churchill on Woman's Christian Temperance Union letterhead. 1890(?) Apr. 9

Box 1, Folder 32

Baker, Obadiah E. Miscellaneous essays. 1859-1860s

Scope and Contents

11 items. Includes school compositions; speeches, articles written for the Strawberry Point newspaper the Crystal Fountain.
Box 1, Folder 33

Miscellaneous documents with photocopies of information about Obadiah Baker. 1891-1964

Box 1, Folder 34

Newspaper clipping re: provenance of the Baker papers. [1964?]

Box 1, Folder 35

Typescript index to Baker's Journals.

Box 2

Civil War journals of Obadiah E. Baker

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.
Box 2, Envelope 1

Journal No. 1. Strawberry Point, Iowa. (1859, Dec. 6 - 1860, Apr. 13) and Manchester, Iowa (1862, Apr. 4-7). 1859-1862, 1874

Physical Description: 32 Leaves18 x 14 cm

Scope and Contents

Journal fills half of a notebook. Recorded topics include: life in Strawberry Point, Iowa: teaching district school; meetings at Methodist Church; Temperance lecture; Courting Melissa and troubles at school. (ff. 1-26); Camp at Manchester, Iowa; and a few miscellaneous accounting entries, 1874.
Box 2, Envelope 1a

Journal No. 2. [fair copy]. 1862, Sept. 19 - Nov. 5

Physical Description: 74 Leaves24 x 20 cm

Scope and Contents

Recorded topics include: Iuka, Sept. 19-20. Battle of Corinth, Oct. 3-4; pursuit to Ripley, Oct. 5-12; Capture of Ripley and Orizaba, Nov. 2. Also contains the poems "Battle of Corinth" and "After the Battle."
Box 2, Envelope 2

Journal No. 2A [original pocket diary]. 1862, Sept. 16-28

Physical Description: 16 Leaves15 x 9 cm
Box 2, Envelope 2a

Journal No. 3 [fair copy]. 1862, Nov. 6 - Dec. 24

Physical Description: 84 Leaves22 x 18 cm

Scope and Contents

Recorded topics include: Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign: LaGrange, Coldwater, Hudsonville, reconnaissance to Holly Springs, Holly Springs, expedition to Ripley, Waterford, Tallahatchie River, Oxford, expedition against Mobile & Ohio Railroad, Ripley.
Box 2, Envelope 3

Journal No. 3A [original pocket diary]. 1862, Dec. 16-30

Physical Description: 18 Leaves15 x 9 cm.
Box 2, Envelope 4

Journal No. 3B [composition book]. 1862, Nov. 5 - Dec. 17

Physical Description: 56 Leaves21 x 17 cm
Box 2, Envelope 4a

Journal No. 4 [fair copy]. 1863, Jan. 23-Mar 17

Physical Description: 41 Leaves21 x 9 cm

Scope and Contents

Recorded topics include: camp life; hospital in Germantown, Tennessee.
Box 2, Envelope 4b

Journal No. 5 [notebook]. 1863, Mar. 18 - June 2

Physical Description: 124 pages21 x 17 cm

Scope and Contents

Recorded topics include: Overton hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; Catholic Sisters of Charity; and Lawson hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
Box 2, Envelope 5

Journal No. 5A [original pocket diary]. 1863, May 18 - July 16

Physical Description:
Box 2, Envelope 6

Journal No. 6 [fair copy notebook]. 1863, June 3 - Sept. 8

Physical Description: 152 pages21 x 7 cm

Scope and Contents

Lawson Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
Box 2, Envelope 7

Journal No. 7 [original pocket diary]. 1863, July 26 - Sept. 7

Physical Description:
Box 2, Envelope 8

Journal No. 8 [original pocket diary]. 1864, Mar 7 - 31

Physical Description:
Box 2, Envelope 9

Journal No. 9A [original pocket diary]. 1864, May 3 - 30

Physical Description:
Box 2, Envelope 10

Journal No. 9 [fair copy notebook]. 1864, May 3 - Aug. 28

Physical Description:

Scope and Contents

Recorded topics include: furlough; camp at Washington, D.C.
Box 2, Envelope 11

Journal No. 10: Giesboro Point, Va. Washington, D.C. [original pocket diary]. 1864, Aug. 3 Sept. 16

Physical Description:
Box 2, Envelope 12

Journal No. 10A: Giesboro Pt. Washington, D.C.[fair copy]. 1864, Aug. 29 - Dec. 4

Physical Description:
Box 2, Envelope 13

Journal No. 11. Giesboro Pt. Washington, D.C. [original pocket diary]. 1865, Feb. 26 - Apr. 7

Physical Description:
Collection Contents
Correspondence, manuscripts, and journals of the Baker family
Civil War journals of Obadiah E. Baker
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