Scope and Contents From the Collection: The William and Isabella Kirkman Collection contains a wide variety of documents. The correspondence file contains William Kirkman's letters to his family written in the 1850s and 1860s. Isabella Kirkman's 1867 scrapbook contains clippings of poems and newspaper articles. Invitations received by the family in the 1870s and 1880s provide evidence of their social engagements. A travel journal kept by William Kirkman describes his family's 1892 European tour. Genealogists will be especially...