The Susie Lawson Letters
![[Hair packet]](http://www.mtholyoke.com/pcsite/letters/images/Lawson/Lawson124f.jpeg)
History
These letters were written to and from members of Susie's family. They had no envelopes, and they were written before Susie was born, or when she was still a child, so they were not written to her. I suspect they became intertwined in Susie's papers at the family home years later.
The Images
All documents have a portion of the first page scanned, and comments about their contents are included below.
- A Letter written on May 6, 1867, to Susie's aunt Esther Calista Lawson from cousin Eleanor Ann (Harris) Lawson
- page 1 No envelope survives. Full contents of letter, though only the first page is scanned.
- A Letter written on Aug 5, 1877, to Susie's father Edwin Newton Lawson from cousin Eleanor Ann (Harris) Lawson
- page 1 No envelope survives. Full contents of letter, though only the first page is scanned.
- A Letter written on Jan 18, 1886, to Susie's father Edwin Newton Lawson from cousin Robert Lawson
- page 1 No envelope survives. Full contents of letter, though only the first page is scanned.
- A lock of hair, undated
- outside A piece of paper, folded. "Hair, supposed to be Susan Lawson's"
- inside A lock of hair