Wight, Dora Elizabeth

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Various photographs of Dora Anderson Wight, taken throughout her life

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A photograph of Dora Anderson Wright

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The 1887 correspondence contains letters from Lena Phillips (nee Anderson) of Butte, Montana Territory, to her sisters Dora Anderson and Sarah "Sada" Anderson of Ashland. A receipt from the John Breuner Furniture House of Sacramento for a parlor suite of furniture for $55 is also included.

Scope and Contents The collection includes letters from Mary Hannah "Minnie" Tolman (nee Anderson), Crit Tolman, and Dora Elizabeth Wight (nee Anderson) written from Kodiak, Alaska, in 1890, and an invitation to the wedding of Ms. Abbie Goodyear and Mr. Frank Lennart of Ashland, Oregon. Addressees of letters include George Anderson, Sarah "Sada" Evaline Burrell (nee Anderson), Anna Belle Anderson, and parents Eli Knight and Elizabeth Nissly Anderson (nee Myer). The letters discuss family matters,...

Scope and Contents The 1892 correspondence includes letters from Dora Wight in Kodiak, Alaska, to her brother George Anderson of Talent, Oregon. Letters refer to the arrival of a schooner to Kodiak Island. The collection has a letter from Joseph A. Wilson of Portland to Miss Anderson (name not given) with an invitation and advertisement from the Oregonian newspaper (photocopy) to attend the "Great Exposition of 1892" in Portland. One letter includes a poem from Mr. M. McCluney of Ashland, Oregon to Anna...

Scope and Contents The collection from 1893 includes correspondence between various Anderson family members. The letters are from George Anderson to his sister Dora Anne Wight (nee Anderson), from Lena Phillips (nee Anderson) of Kodiak, Alaska to her sister Mary Hannah "Minnie" Anderson, and a letter from E.K. Anderson of Ashland, Oregon to his son G.N. Anderson of Copley California. The E.K. Anderson letter discusses recent gold findings by prospectors in streams on his land and arbitration on the proceeds...

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The 1898 correspondence includes two letters from E.N. Anderson (nee Myer) to Dora Elizabeth Wight (nee Anderson). The letters are concerned with family matters, farm operations, and seasonal weather.

Scope and Contents The 1907 correspondence consists primarily of letters and bills sent to Fred Mortimer Carter of Ellensburg, Washington. The correspondence includes letters from attorney Chester W. Clark of Boston and J.H. Avery of Milton, New Hampshire, about money loaned to Carter. There is a letter and bill from Samuel E. Barney of the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University for tuition, room and board, and laboratory fees. The correspondence includes a single letter from Milton F. Wight...

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The correspondence from September to December, 1927 consists of letters from various family members, including Chesater Phillips, the Carters, Dora Anderson and many others.

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The Anderson-Phillips family papers consist of personal correspondence between family members. The letters cover topics such as daily life, mining in Kodiak, Vetabelle Carter's invention, World War I, and the Great Depression.