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Summary Information
Hitty Wenzel Potter Papers 1840-1911
- Potter, Hitty Wenzel, 1820-1864
Milwaukee Mss 147
0.8 c.f. (1 flat box)
UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)
Transcribed and original letters written by Potter mainly from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin to family members in Massachusetts, and a few letters directed to her. The letters describe the life of a woman in territorial Wisconsin: household duties, raising children, religious and social life, and tending the sick. There is also mention of runaway slaves; national politics; outbreaks of cholera, smallpox, and scarlet fever; the local economy; descriptions of the family's land and livestock holdings; and attitudes towards new immigrants. Also in the collection are two letters (1885 and 1891) to Susan Potter DeGraff from two of her brothers (Hitty's children); several schoolgirl compositions; a 1911 clipping from a Wauwatosa newspaper giving details of the family history; and a typed copy of an 1864 manuscript about the history of the Johnston and Upson families. Most of the letters are photocopies of transcriptions, but sixteen are original letters. English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mil00147
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