Please be patient as it may take some time to open these pages. These letters were sent to family members from Paul Leland Sudlow Christmas 1961 (Richard's trunk) February, 1962 (personal note, Quaker Meeting House) Christmas 1962 (New Zealand Plate) Christmas 1963 (Sudlows in London) Christmas 1964 (Cheshire, England Map) Christmas 1965 (Sudlow Farm) Christmas 1966 (Sudlow family in the US) Christmas 1967 (Elizabeth's Medicine Book) (1968, no letter sent) Christmas 1969 (First Portrait Photographs) Christmas 1970 (3 Pages, Wanzer Home) Christmas 1971 (John J. Haviland Letter) (1972, no letter sent) (1973, no letter sent) Christmas 1974 (personal note, Paul's Home) The following come from Paul's son John Sudlow July 1994 Trip to Hocking Co. August 1994 Trip to Hocking Co. 1996 Letter about family trip to Hocking Co These letters were written by John Haviland Sudlow and his wife Elizabeth (Linclon) from Illinois and Iowa to family in Ohio They were transcribed by Paul Sudlow. The original letters are at the Iowa Historical Society August 5, 1847 December 2, 1848 October 7, 1849 (Poem) April 11, 1851 May 25, 1851 July 1, 1851 November 7, 1851 December 14, 1851 December 21, 1851 February 8, 1852 March 11, 1852 April 11, 1852 May 16, 1852 June 26, 1852 June 27, 1852 August 8, 1852 September 25, 1852 October 3, 1852 February 27, 1853 April 10, 1853 April 24, 1853 July 24, 1853 December 11, 1853 February 5, 1854 March 5, 1854 March 26, 1854 October 1, 1854 November 26, 1854 December 31 - January 3, 1854 January 14, 1855 July 20, 1855 September 10, 1855 (John H. Sudlow died 5 days after the last letter was written. He was 29 years old. His mother, brothers, and sisters sold their farm and came to Iowa the next spring) Return to Main Page |