Items

• Letter, Washington City, February 13, 1853, to [Joseph Wales]
  Handwritten letter sent from Washington, DC by Truman Smith to Joseph Wales on February 13, 1853 regarding the failed experiment of the previous day and the need to prove efficiency of the gas in New York; in black ink
• Letter, January 19, 1858, to Joseph Wales
  Handwritten letter in form of a poem sent by Miss Matthews to Joseph Wales on January 19, 1858; in black ink
• Letter, New York, November 20, 1858, to Benjamin F. Pinckney
  Handwritten letter of introduction of Joseph Wales and his stakes in the discovery of anesthesia sent from Mayor Office in New York by Daniel F. Tiemann to Benjamin F. Pinckney on November 20, 1858; in black ink
• Letter, Hartford, April, 1860
  Photocopy of Elizabeth Welles letter with a plea for the Medical Convention of1860 to endorse Horace Wells as discoverer of anesthesia
• Letter, 1873, to Joseph Wales
  Handwritten letter written about 1873 by Elizabeth Wells to her brother Joseph Wales on the history of the Wales family (The Wales' from Windham, Conn.); in black ink
• Letter, Point Pleasant, N.J., August 24, 1885, to Miss Perkins
  Handwritten draft of two letters on one piece of paper, one written to Miss Perkins and the other to [Mr. Chas. S. Schuman?]
• Letter, Hartford to Mary Wales
  Handwritten letter sent from Hartford by Elizabeth Wells to her niece Mary Wales, undated; in black ink