The Lurana Faustina Leavitt Whitaker collection includes 27 folders of letters received by her or her family from 1841 to 1905. Most of the letters are from friends and family (especially her father Orren and sister Lurenda Beal) in and near Lewiston, Lewiston Falls, Turner and North Turner, Maine. There are also letters from cousin Sarah Small and her husband Samuel from Prescott, Wisconsin; several letters from S.H. Haskell, a school teacher who wrote to her from several locations in Maine and Minnesota (close to and from St. Anthony) from 1859 to 1862; correspondence from Robert Thayer and J.M. Staples in Maine; Sabina Ricker from Sumner, Maine; Rachel Parlin from Paris, Maine; and Lucy Hibbard, M.D., Lewiston, Maine. There is also a letter to cousin Emma Small from William Lloyd Garrison in 1865.
The other folders in the collection include genealogical information, graduation announcements for two of her children, her lecture notebook (incomplete) on women's rights, school papers, and photographs.
