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The following letters and papers are included in the collection:
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Two letters to the editor of The Christian [Mirror?]. October 6, 1846 [n.d.]. 9 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to the members of the Columbia Mission. Chimakine [SIC], October 27, 1839. Endorsed, in Whitman's hand: "Oct. 1839, Mr. Walker to the members of the Mission." 4 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to Chief Factor James Douglas. March 8, 1842. 2 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to "My dear friends." October 26, 1847. 2 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Eight letters to the Rev. David Greene, Secretary, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. February 7, 1839-January 18, 1847. 58 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to Edwin O. Hall. June 28, 1842. 6 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Two letters to the Hudson's Bay Company. March 17, 1847, one enclosing an order for goods. 5 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Three letters to John L. Lewes. January 13, 1847-March 9, 1848. 14 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to Archibald McDonald. September 22, 1845. 3 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Two letters to Dr. John McLoughlin, Chief Factor, Hudson's Bay Company. March 20, 1840. Drafts. 6 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to the editors of the New England Puritan. February 3, 1846. 7 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Two letters to the Rev. H. H. Spalding. March 12, 1840, August 10, 1842. 5 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to John Mix Stanley. Undated, probably after November 1847. 7 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to Mrs. Walker. June 21, 1847. 8 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter [or journal] probably to Mrs. Walker, without beginning or end, with entries for Saturday through Tuesday, 12-15 [July 1851], while accompanying Dr. Dart as interpreter on his ex¬pedition to the Indians. 7 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Letter to "My dear Boy" [Cyrus Walker?]. April 1847. Fragment.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Copy of a form letter promising a donation to Pacific University, Tualatin, O.T. August 22, 1854. 2 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Oregon Mission meeting, Elkanah Walker, secretary, and later moderator. Draft of minutes and votes at meetings of September 1838, February 1839, and January 1841; and a letter to the members of the Sandwich Island Mission, April 15, 18[?]. 9 pp.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Miscellaneous manuscripts; notes for sermons; parts of letters; memoranda; receipts, bills, orders; a note¬book containing a table of distances and days crossing the continent, notes on earlier missionaries, the country trav¬ersed, the natives and their customs [12 pp.]; certificate of baptism of Michel Ogden, April 21, 1848; account book, 1849-1851 [24 pp.] ; statement of Walker's views "written on or near the tenth of March, 1854, at Tualatin Plains during a sitting of a council at this place" [8 pp.] ; Commission of the American Home Missionary Society ap¬pointing the Rev. Elkanah Walker missionary at the First Congregational Church of Hillsboro, Ore., February 11, 1867, printed form filled in by hand with a note added by Milton Badger, New York, April 22, 1867. 100 pp.
  • WALKER, MARY RICHARDSON (MRS. ElKANAH). Diary, June 10-December 31, 1838. Typewritten copy. Endorsed: "Copied by J. E. Walker." 34 pp.
  • WALKER, MARY RICHARDSON (MRS. ElKANAH). Part of a letter describing the journey west, arrival at the Whitmans', their arrival and home at Tshimakain, written during the summer of 1839. 4 pp.
  • WALKER, MARY RICHARDSON (MRS. ElKANAH). Letter to the Rev. S. A. McLean. June 7 [1842?]. Draft. 3 pp.
  • WALKER, MARY RICHARDSON (MRS. ElKANAH). Part of a letter to Sister C. [Charlotte Richardson?]. October 26, 1847. Draft. 1 p.
  • WALKER, MARY RICHARDSON (MRS. ElKANAH). Three letters to Mrs. Mercy L. Whitney. July 28, 1839-April 16, 1847. Drafts. 9 pp.
  • WALKER, MARY RICHARDSON (MRS. ElKANAH). Memorandum in pencil, regarding raising money for Sunday school books, May 8 [1836]; manuscript poems, and memoranda. 6 pp.
  • COLUMBIA MATERNAL ASSOCIATION. Constitution and minutes, September 3, 1838-June 1842. 10 pp. The Constitution is written in a careful, copperplate hand, possibly Mrs. Walker's, and is evidently the Constitution as drawn up at the first meeting, when Mrs. Spal¬ding was elected president, Mrs. Walker vice-president, and Mrs. Gray recording secretary. It is followed by the minutes of the first meeting, September 3, 1838, in Mrs. Walker's hand, and the records of the meetings she attended through August 26, 1840, and the general meeting of June 1842.
  • ALLEN, RUTH C. Letter to Mary Richardson. December 19, 1832. 3 pp.
  • DOUGLAS, JAMES. Letter to Mr. Walker. February 7, 1849. 2 pp.
  • ERMATINGER, FRANCIS. Letter to C. Rogers. January 14, 1839. 2 pp.
  • FLETT, JOHN. Letter to Mr. Walker. April 13, 1857. 1 p.
  • FLETT, THOMAS. Three letters to Mr. Walker. January 21-April 26, 1845. 3 pp.
  • FRASER, PAUL. Letter to Mr. Walker. March 18, 1845. 1 p.
  • GRIFFIN, MRS. DESIRE. Letter to Mrs. Walker. February 15, 1840. 3 pp.
  • HALE, HORATIO. Two letters to Mr. Walker. October 8, 1841. 5 pp.
  • HALL, EDWIN O. Three letters to Eells and Walker. May 5, 1839-March 16, 1840. 9 pp.
  • HATCH, SARAH C. Letter to Mrs. Walker. July 13, 1858. 4 pp.
  • JOHNSON, ROBERT E. Letter to the Ladies of the Mission [May 1841]. 3 pp.
  • JOHNSON, ROBERT E. Letter to Eells and Walker. June 27, 1841. 3 pp.
  • JORDEN, WILLIAM V. Letter to Mr. Walker. October 25, 1846. 3 pp.
  • LITTLEJOHN, PHILO B. Two letters to Walker and Eells. February 25, September 11, 1843. 5 pp.
  • LITTLEJOHN, MRS. ADELINE S. Letter to Mrs. Walker. February 1, 1844. 2 pp.
  • MCLEAN, DONALD. Letter to Mr. Walker. February 1842. 1 p.
  • MCPHERSON, JOHN. Letter to Mr. Walker. February 17, 1846. 2 pp.
  • MACTAVISH, DUGALD. Letter to Mr. Walker. April 18, 1845. 1 p.
  • PELLY, A. E. Letter to Mr. Walker. October 30, 1844. 2 pp.
  • [RICHARDSON], CHARLOTTE. Two letters to Mr. Walker, one with no date, the first part missing; the other January 2 [1850]. 2 pp.
  • RODGERS, ANDREW. Two letters to Mrs. Walker. October 8, 1846, June 26, 1847. 5 pp.
  • TOD, JOHN. Letter to Mr. Walker. July 7, 1844. 3 pp.
  • WALKER, JOSEPH M. Letter to his uncle, Elkanah Walker. April 22, 1850. 2 pp.
  • WHITMAN, PERRIN B. Order on Mr. Walker to pay Albion Post $50. Oregon City, August 1, 1851. Endorsed by A. R. Post, March 17, 1852. 1 p.
  • WALKER, ELKANAH. Manuscript booklets in the Indian tongue; extracts from Matthew, lists of words and phrases, and vocabularies in the Flathead language; an English-Nez Perce dictionary; and a hymnbook for children in English in Mrs. Walker's hand. 20 pieces. 181 pp.
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  2. Walker Family papers, 1839-1854

Walker Family papers, 1839-1854 1 box

Walker, Elkanah, 1805-1877

The Walker Family Papers (WA MSS 501) consist of drafts or copies of letters written by Elkanah Walker during the years 1839-54. Many of the letters are unsigned and unfinished. The collection also includes letters written to Elkanah and Mary Richardson Walker and a number of family papers. Among the papers is a typewritten copy of a diary of Mary Richardson Walker, covering the period June 10-December 31, 1838, as well as material concerning the Columbia Maternal Association. The latter consists of the Association's Constitution and minutes for the period September 3, 1838-June, 1842. The Constitution is written in a careful, copperplate hand, possibly Mary Richardson Walker's, and is evidently the Constitution as drawn up at the first meeting, when Mrs. Spalding was elected president, Mrs. Walker vice-president, and Mrs. Gray recording secretary. It is followed by the minutes of the first meeting, September 3, 1838, in Mrs. Walker's hand, and the records of the meetings she attended through August 26, 1840, and an account of the general meeting of June, 1842.

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