The Hamblin Epps Hardy Papers contain materials related to research on pioneer Martin Van Buren Elliott that led to information about fellow Washington State pioneer Hamblin Epps Hardy. These papers, which date from circa 1970, contain photocopues of an exchange of letters between Carolyn Ames and the Whitman College and Northwest Archives, the National Archive and Record Service, and L.L. Bruning Funeral Home in Colfax, Washington.