MICROFILM ONLY. About fifty letters, 1849-1856, to Haynes in Giles County, Tenn., from his son, Peril Columbus Haynes (1826-1910), a farmer in Davis County, Iowa, concerning opportunities in the area, crops, livestock, weather, health, political opinions, and family affairs; letters, 1836-1845, from another son, a Cumberland Presbyterian minister in Pittsburgh, Pa., Greenville, S.C., and other places, concerning community and personal affairs, and letters from that son's creditors in Pittsburgh; and four letters from Mexican War soldiers, including three, February-April 1847, from Peril C. Haynes at Tampico and near Vera Cruz, largely concerning military affairs.
