Collection Contents

Clippings

Typewritten transcripts, ca. 1870s

Soper family, ca. 1937-1938

Correspondence (originals, along with typed transcripts for many)

Civil War -- CHS to his brother, 1862, n.d.

CHS to family, ca. 1883-1884

Emeline and Catharine, 1909-1935

Diary -- typewritten transcript, ca. 1883-1884

Notebook -- includes recipes, poems, horticulture, and accounts (also later undated loose typewritten notes by Catharine Soper laid in), ca. 1877-1882

Photographs

Soper family, n.d.

Gardens and scenery (much like the ones in Stories), n.d.

Picture Postcard Albums

Western, Pennsylvania, and a few Santa Barbara Scenes (mainly to Mrs. Emeline. Soper and Miss Catharine [Kate] Soper, Alhambra, CA), ca. 1905-1913

U.S. and Europe, ca. 1910s

Picture Postcards -- loose, some with messages, to Emeline and Catharine, ca. 1905-1930s

Writings by E. Catharine Soper

Essays (mainly about animal rights and vegetarianism), n.d.

Stories of an Alhambra Garden and Journeys Near-- typescript, with photos, ca. 1930s

Miscellany (includes copy of etching of C. H. Soper residence in Pennsylvania), ca. 1870s-early 1900s

Outline, 1942

Research Notes, ca. early 1940s