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Title: Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, January 1, 1859
Description: Electa writes to her sister-in-law Sarah about how much she misses Sarah and their family. She also writes about the clothing she owns, and what is owned by a woman she knows in town.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12319

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, April 3, 1859
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12370

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, April 3, 1859
Description: Electa thanks Sarah for the dress pattern, and briefly discusses their family. George writes about the District Court, the weather, buying a farm in Massachusetts, and the injury of an acquaintance.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12369

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, October 23, 1859
Description: Electa writes about how she misses the family, asks for news of family members, and gives updates on those in Iowa. George writes that the College railroad business are completed.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12391

Title: George W. Cook to Friends, December 18, 1859
Description: In the first part of the letter, George writes of people in town, the weather and crops and livestock. In the second part he writes about some wells being dry, crops, the railroad, and land prices. The names Ezra Grinnell, Fred Taylor, and someone by the last name Monroe.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:12396

Title: John Brown's route across Iowa
Description: Clipping from Des Moines Register describing John Brown's route across Iowa.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:186

Title: On to Grinnell!, John Brown's March
Description: Clipping from Des Moines Register advertising the Grinnell installment of their series on John Brown's journey across Iowa
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:187

Title: When Josiah Grinnell's Home Concealed John Brown's Guns
Description: Clipping advertising a series of articles by the Des Moines Register about John Brown's trip through Iowa, including his stay at J.B. Grinnell's home.
Date Created: 1859
PID: grinnell:185