Scope and ContentPersonal letters between members of the Edwin House family Letters from Herbert House who lived in Pasedena, California to Edwin House (his brother) -- 1930s about Lingnan University in Canton, China; his boyhood impression of Saugatuck when the family first arrived in 1868; travels; cooperatives; copy of letter to son Harvey about meeting with Pearl Buck (author) and John Day Books; Jessie's illness in 1950; a visit from refugee Czechoslovakians in 1953; desire for a little cottage on the family farm in Saugatuck, Letters from Harvey House (Herbert's son and Edwin's nephew) who lived in Pasedena, California to Celia (Gamble) House or Edwin House -- about Edwin's heath and keeping the farm running in 1957; preparing for Edwin's lingering illness in 1958; his wife Gerri and son Freeman, tubular joins and Eisenhower's farm price guarantees; concrete additives and tubular gaskets, Gladding McBean (ceramics company); death of Aunt Jessie (Edwin's sister) in 1950; death of Edwin in 1958; thanks for invitation to visit Saugatuck in 1962; apologies for not visiting in 1964; Freeman's visit to Celia Martin (House) and Bill Allen in Pennsylvania; Celia (Gamble) House's impending eye surgery and Freeman's August visit to Saugatuck in 1964; Freeman's shock about suicide of band mate, growing interest in Quaker belief; Harvey (who was born in China) signing up for Mandarin Chinese lessons; 1963 spirit-duplicated Christmas newsletter - Harvey will delay retirement, son Freeman is in Pasadena High School, daughter Sylvia is very married to David Lee and teaching, spouse Gerri is working for University of Southern California; 1970 Christmas newsletter with family updates. 1951 Letters from "Kenneth" to "Uncle Ed" on American Scientific Laboratories of Madison Wisconsin letterhead about Banarat and Warfarin rodent poison and warm memories of time spent on the House farm. Inexplicable letter from Keizo Komura 1949-1950 Handwritten letters to Ed from Clare Thomson, 9815-108th Ave., S.E. Renton, Washington about his father's book of poem "The Selected Poems of Alexander Thomson" asking that one copy be given to Capt. Charles S. Daily and pointing out the poem "Memorial to Mr. House 1897"; literature recommendations, memories like "In about 1886 I used to take the cow to pasture over the Singapore road every morning. At that time there ere foundations of two or three houses remaining... Mrs Calkins in her poem 'The Road to Singapore' ", Abbot Davis, Mr. Russel Force, Mrs Iris Dailey, politics in 1950, Thomson's niece Mrs. Jean Sperry has contact with Mrs. Myrtle Comstock who has a gift shop in Saugatuck, who may stock the Thompson poetry book and the book's publisher Exposition Press.