Letter from Mrs. Spalding, dated August 5, 1850 to her sister, Miss Lorene Hart at Holland Patent. Written from Calapooya, Oregon. Mrs. Spalding makes mention of the massacre; how they got out; the "guilty biogoted Catholic"; cost of living in Oregon; her own poor health, etc. [Caption from Clifford M. Drury's notes.]

Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851. (author)

August 5, 1850
1850

English

Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851.
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874.
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Hart, Lorene.
Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-1984.

Indians of North America--Missions.
Whitman Massacre, 1847.

North and Central America--United States--New York--Oneida--Holland Patent
Holland Patent (N.Y.)
Calapooya Mountains (Or.)
North and Central America--United States--Oregon--Linn--Calapooia

Holland Patent (N.Y.)
Calapooya Mountains (Or.)

correspondence

manuscripts

text

manuscript (4 pages) ; 7 3/4 x 13 inches

RG 283, Box 1, Folder 2; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA

Letter from Eliza H. Spalding to her family, April 28, 1843.
Henry Harmon Spalding and Eliza Hart Spalding Papers, 1833-ca. 1908.--http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-...

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