Baldwin, Alice Blackwood, approximately 1845-1930

Series of letters from Alice Baldwin to Frank Baldwin. Many of the letters date from 1869-1876, when Alice was suffering from depression while living with Robert and Rebecca Blackwood in Northville, Michigan, and Frank's Aunt Mary in Coldwater, Michigan, while Frank was on the frontier with Nelson A. Miles' infantry. Alice writes of her fears for Frank's health and safety and writes of her unhappiness with being separated from him and living with relatives, concluding "I am as homesick and dissatisfied as I can be here." Later letters include one sent from Vancouver while Frank was in Washington, D.C., in 1884. Also includes other assorted correspondence, including a letter from Alice to her daughter, Juanita, sent during the Baldwins' 1878-1879 European tour, where Alice wrote from London about her impressions of Queen Victoria, Princess Alexandra of Wales and her "mischievous young scamp" son, and John Brown; a letter from Juanita to her parents while she was boarding school in Detroit in 1885; a letter from Ambrose C.G. Williams-Foote's sister to Juanita (1891); and an essay by Juanita describing "Christmas at the Mission."

From the description of Letters to Frank D. Baldwin, c.1869-1885. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 729761547