Elva Seabury Griffiths, born September 24, 1889 in Plainview, Nebraska, moved to Walla Walla in 1919, where she worked as a music teacher and librarian. The Elva Griffiths Papers, dating from 1849 to 1966, consists of letters addressed to and written by Elva Griffiths, as well as personal and family photographs, scrapbooks, documents, manuscripts, notebooks, and clippings.